Sage Weil (born March 17, 1978) is the founder and chief architect of Ceph, a distributed storage platform. He also was the creator of

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, a co-founder of Los Angeles-based hosting company

DreamHost DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is owned by New Dream Network, LLC, founded in 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez and Sage Weil, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd Colleg ...

, and the founder and CTO of Inktank. Weil now works for Red Hat as the chief architect of the Ceph project. Weil earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from

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in 2000 and completed his PhD in 2007 at the

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working with Prof. Scott Brandt on consistency protocols, data distribution (CRUSH), and the metadata manager in the Ceph distributed file system. In 2014, he won an

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WebRing

In May 1994, Weil developed a script based on work by

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and

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that became the technology behind WebRing. Weil launched

in June 1995 and eventually sold it to Starseed, Inc. in 1997.

DreamHost

As an undergraduate, Weil worked with fellow

students

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, Josh Jones, and Michael Rodriguez to build

. The site was registered and began hosting customers’ sites in 1997.

incubated and eventually spun off Inktank.

Inktank

In 2011, Weil co-founded Inktank with (CEO) Bryan Bogensberger as the CTO and technical architect. Inktank was a professional services and support company for the open source Ceph file system. The company was initially funded by

and later supplemented by

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

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