Almost every few weeks, new storage products are announced by competitors and I generally avoid commenting on them. But EMC’s ViPR announcement contains attempts to perform both marketing and technical sleight of hand around software-defined storage that potentially do much to slow down the inevitable change that is coming to the storage market. While EMC [...]
Back in January I posted about how Inktank’s momentum was accelerating. Well, to say this trend is continuing would be a gross understatement. The Inktank team continues to execute at a blinding pace and the world keeps on noticing. For example: • The Community and Marketing (we are hiring) teams killed it at the OpenStack Summit. There [...]
Today marks another milestone for Ceph with the release of Cuttlefish (v0.61), the third stable release of Ceph. Inktank’s development efforts for the Cuttlefish release have been focused around Red Hat support and making it easier to install and configure Ceph while improving the operational ease of integrating with 3rd party tools, such as provisioning [...]
Traveling up the elevator this morning to our office, a suited gentleman turned to me in my rugby jersey and asked, “I don’t know what’s going on the 50th floor, but I’m f**king jealous.” Walking out of the elevator, I asked myself the same question; what are we doing here? I strolled into the office [...]