By @honline - May 8, 2013. The third stable release of the Ceph distributed storage platform, named the “Cuttlefish” edition, has enhanced Red Hat support and improvements to make it easier to deploy. Ceph, which is developed by Inktank, offers a distributed system that can be presented to users as an object storage system, a block storage system, or as [...]
By Christopher Tozzi | The VAR Guy – May 7, 2013. Inktank, the company behind the Ceph distributed storage platform, is cuddling up close with Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) with the latest release of Ceph, dubbed Cuttlefish. The new version may better position the open-source storage system for Big Data channel partner opportunities. As perhaps the only enterprise-ready distributed storage platform that offers [...]
Inktank is announcing the newest release Ceph called Cuttlefish which offers enhancements to the massively scalable, open source software-defined storage system. Ceph Cuttlefish updates include Red Hat support, quicker installation for easier adoption, and operational improvements for scaling applications. Ceph also delivers object, block, and file storage in a single system that runs on existing [...]
Release quickens on-ramp to the scalable, open source, distributed storage system LOS ANGELES, California – May 7, 2013 – Inktank, the company delivering Ceph – the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system, today announced the latest release, dubbed Cuttlefish. The Ceph Cuttlefish release focuses on Red Hat support, improved enterprise adoption through quicker installation, [...]
By Barb Darrow of GigaOm One thing we learned at last month’s OpenStack Summit was that the open-source cloud crowd really, really likes Ceph storage. Ceph is an open-source distributed object store and file system that is clearly gaining traction in OpenStack shops. Now Inktank, a company that launched last year to offer services and support for Ceph, is now offering [...]
Via The Wall Street Journal. Inktank Announces Ceph Cuttlefish Release Release Quickens On-Ramp to the Scalable, Open Source, Distributed Storage System LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – May 7, 2013) – Inktank, the company delivering Ceph — the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system, today announced the latest release, dubbed Cuttlefish. The Ceph Cuttlefish release focuses [...]
By Gary Hilson Network Computing May 03, 2013 12:45 PM Silver Peak Systems has released new hardware and software to improve WAN performance. The company said its NX-11K hardware appliance delivers 5Gbps of WAN capacity and up to 20 Gbps of optimized throughput for TCP and non-TCP applications. The 2U hardware appliance supports 512,000 simultaneous connections. Silver Peak also [...]
By Alan Earls for Tech Target With all the hype around software defined storage (SDS), it can be hard to tell which of the many technology vendors claiming the term clearly fall into this category. But experts agree that true SDS technologies share a central goal — the emergence of a non-proprietary system that is software-driven and enables [...]
London, 25th April, 2013: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Server 13.04 is available for download, featuring high-availability (HA) for OpenStack along with industry-leading capabilities for scale out storage, networking and compute. “Ubuntu is built for hyperscale and is the platform of choice for production OpenStack clouds” commented Jane Silber, CEO at Canonical. “Over the last [...]
by Barb Darrow - GigaOm – APR. 16, 2013 SUMMARY: There was a lot going on at the OpenStack Summit, where a couple thousand of the open-source cloud faithful gathered this week. Here are my main takeaways. 1: Customer-to-vendor ratio is getting better. But just a bit. Tuesday’s keynotes featured real, live OpenStack users Bloomberg, Comcast, HubSpot and [...]