Inktank Storage was the lead development contributor and financial sponsor company behind the open source Ceph distributed file system. Inktank was founded by Sage Weil and Bryan Bogensberger and initially funded by DreamHost, Citrix and

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acquired Inktank Storage for $175 Million in April 2014.

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

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at the

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. In August 2012, Inktank joined the

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to further open source technologies such as Ceph. In September 2012,

invested 1 million dollars to help support the progression of Ceph.

Coverage

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

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