Inktank Storage

Inktank Storage Inc.
Subsidiary of Red Hat;[1]
Private company
Industry Computer storage
Founded 2011
Headquarters Los Angeles, California
Key people
 Sage Weil (Founder and CTO)
Bryan Bogensberger (CEO)
Website www.inktank.com

Inktank Storage is the lead development contributor and financial sponsor company behind the open source Ceph distributed file system.[2] Inktank was founded by Sage Weil and initially funded by DreamHost[3] and Mark Shuttleworth.[4]

On 30 April 2014 it was announced that Red Hat would acquire Inktank Storage for $175 Million.[1]

History

Inktank was created to offer professional services and support for the open source Ceph storage system. CTO and founder Sage Weil started the open source Ceph project in 2004 for his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[5] In August 2012, Inktank joined the Linux Foundation to further open source technologies such as Ceph.[6] In September 2012, Mark Shuttleworth invested 1 million dollars to help support the progression of Ceph.[4]

Coverage

In July 2012, Inktank was listed in the Infostor 6 Storage Startups to Watch.[7] In July 2012, Inktank was listed in CRN The 10 Coolest Storage Startups of 2012.[8] In May 2012, Inktank was listed in CRN 10 Hot Emerging Vendors.[9]

Partners

References

  1. 1 2 "Red Hat acquires Inktank". 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  2. ↑ Joseph F. Kovar (4 May 2012). "Startup Inktank Supports Ceph Open-Source Storage Technology". CRN. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "DreamHost spins off Inktank, provides professional services for Ceph cloud storage". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Open source champ Mark Shuttleworth invests $1M in Ceph storage startup". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Sage Weil (2007-12-01). "Ceph: Reliable, Scalable, and High-Performance Distributed Storage" (PDF). University of California, Santa Cruz.
  6. ↑ "Inktank Joins Linux Foundation, Collaborates on Open Source Storage". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "6 Storage Startups to Watch". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2012". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "10 Hot Emerging Vendors For May 2012". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "Dell and Inktank Partner on the Cloud and Big Data". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  11. ↑ "Inktank Partners With Canonical". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  12. ↑ "Inktank and SUSE Partner to Support SUSE Cloud". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  13. ↑ "Inktank Partners With Citrix to Support Ceph Distributed". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  14. ↑ "Storage for the grand French cloud? Inktank partners with eNovance on Ceph". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
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