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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 [...]
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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 [...]
EPEL is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, a project that ports software that is part of the Fedora community distribution to the slower-moving RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) distribution (and its derivatives) used by many enterprises. One problem for RHEL users is that although the distribution tends to be rock solid, that stability comes at [...]
Today, I am excited to announce our partnership with hastexo who provides Ceph-related professional services world-wide. We have been working closely with hastexo for some time, including collaboration on the development of new Ceph courseware for new Inktank training courses that are now available. hastexo is a professional services company located in Austria and serving customers on five continents. The [...]
It’s been just over a year since Inktank was formed with a goal of making Ceph the ‘Linux of Storage’. But while Inktank is a young company, Ceph itself has a longer history, going back to Sage Weil’s PhD in 2005. The intervening years saw much of the engineering work focused on building the foundations [...]
So many people have been asking us for more details on CRUSH, I thought it would be worthwhile to share more about it on our blog. If you have not heard of CRUSH, it stands for “Controlled Replication Under Scalable Hashing”. CRUSH is the pseudo-random data placement algorithm that efficiently distributes object replicas across a [...]
I’m excited to announce that this coming Thursday at 10am PST, I will be guest hosting a case study webinar with Inktank on DreamHost’s cloud storage product, DreamObjects. For those that don’t know me I’m the lead systems engineer for DreamObjects and have been working with Ceph since 2010. We’re proud to be running a 2 petabyte Ceph cluster [...]
Yesterday was another milestone for our Inktank scrapbook. We hosted our first webinar titled “Getting Started with Ceph”. Our technical marketing engineer/overall nice guy @klivansky presented the webinar, which lasted one hour and covered the basics of getting setup with Ceph. He covered… An introduction into Ceph and Inktank A description of the [...]