Within each major release of red hat ceph storage, any errata advisory including one. Inktank, the company delivering ceph the massively scalable, open source, softwaredefined storage system today announced inktank ceph enterprise. Supermicro ceph solutions inktank osd storage node cnet. Expanded now beyond the cloud to cold storage and archiving, inktank ceph enterprise is a product combining the most stable version of ceph for object and block storage with a ceph management. It requires some linux skills, and if you need commercial support your only option is to get in touch with inktank, the company behind ceph, or an integrator, or redhat since it has been now acquired by them. Within each major release of red hat ceph storage, any errata advisory including one released as part of a minor release will be applied cumulatively to the latest release of red hat ceph storage, including any patch sets. Massive scale with minimal effort its been just over a year since inktank was formed with a goal of making ceph the linux of storage. Softwaredefined storage vendor inktank is helping businesses. Over the next 12 years, red hat plans to develop product. While that undoubtedly sounds like a conglomeration of buzzwords, it in fact describes well what the company does. With all the cloud storage competition coming out of the. Red hats ceph and inktank code repositories were cracked zdnet. For its next trick, inktank tries to pull golden rabbit from ceph hat. Inktank, a startup formed to provide enterprise support for the ceph open sourcestorage technology, brings object, block, and file storage into a single file system.
A massive refactor done a week ago on cephcontainer. It has just announced that it is buying inktank, a developer of opensource storage systems. Inktank takes the wraps off ceph enterprise cloud pro. The crush function maps ceph placement groups pgs and objects to osds.
Dells private cloud solutions have included inktank ceph for quite some. It focuses on steadystate performance of openstack instance created file systems on cinder volumes as a function of the number of instances per server. In october 2015, the ceph community advisory board was formed to assist the community in driving the direction of open source software defined storage technology. Taking a step into the rapidly emerging market for softwaredefined storage, red hat has agreed to acquire inktank, the company behind the ceph opensource storage system, for. The next code drop from red hat inktank ceph the openstack storage darling is here and there is some good stuff in this release. It is common to define the ceph crush map so that pgs use osds on different read more. Jul 16, 2014 red hat releases inktank ceph enterprise 1. Ceph has been developed from the ground up to deliver object, block, and file system storage in a single software platform that is selfmanaging, selfhealing and has no single point of failure. While that undoubtedly sounds like a conglomeration of buzzwords, it in fact describes well what the. Inktank supports new enterprise release of open source. The product combines open source ceph software for object and block.
Supermicro ceph solutions inktank osd storage node rackmountable xeon e52670v2 2. View the red hat ceph storage product from red hat. We dont have anything against docker, we believe its excellent and we use it. Inktank ceph upgrade targets big data storage, red hat support as perhaps the only enterpriseready distributed storage platform that offers massive scalability and is available as opensource software, cephs profile has risen rapidly since inktank launched in 2012 to provide support and services for it. That means that calamari, the monitoring and diagnostics tool that inktank has developed as part of the inktank ceph enterprise product, will soon be open sourced. However, having the cephdocker name does not reflect the content of the repository.
Last fall, when we launched inktank ceph enterprise, our flagship product, our goal was to shake up the storage industry by bringing the flexibility and power of open source to enterprises who understand. Red hat enterprise linux openstack platform on inktank. Red hat to acquire ceph opensource storage provider inktank. Engineered for data analytics, artificial intelligencemachine learning aiml, and emerging workloads, red hat ceph storage delivers softwaredefined storage on your choice of industrystandard hardware. Red hat is making its way into the software defined storage market. Red hat to acquire inktank, provider of ceph business wire. Red hat has upgraded its openstack storage software distribution inktank ceph enterprise ice to version 1. Software defined storage vendor inktank is helping businesses alleviate that burden with a software storage system based on the opensource project ceph, which provides a more flexible, clusterbased software storage alternative to your standard hardware storage.
I dont know who, exactly, the red hat storage marketing group was targeting with the benchmarks, but i am targeting a very specific audience, and it isnt anyone associated with inktank or the ceph project. Feb 04, 2014 inktank delivers ceph, a scalable, open source, software defined storage system. Oct 30, 20 open source cloud service provider inktank has launched an enterpriseready version of its ceph software defined storage system. Businesses today have multiple software applications and vast quantities of company data, both of which require ample repository space. Apr 30, 2014 red hat, the open source software provider, is squaring up to amazon in the storage market. Inktank has done a brilliant job assembling a strong ecosystem around. May 21, 2015 ceph, as said, is an open source software solution. Join our free webinar wednesday, july 30, and learn how this new release couples a slate of powerful features with the tools needed to confidently run production ceph clusters at scale to deliver new levels of flexibility and cost advantages for enterprises like yours, ones seeking to store and manage the spectrum of data from hot.
Dubbed inktank ceph enterprise, the product is a subscription. Red hat reports that the ceph community project and inktank download sites were hacked last week and its possible that some code was. Inktankdell partnership inktank is a strategic partner for dell in emerging solutions the emerging solutions ecosystem partner program is designed todeliver complementary cloud. Softwaredefined storage and the ceph solution suse. Ceph introduction ceph, the future of storage, is a massively scalable, open source, softwaredefined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Expanded now beyond the cloud to cold storage and archiving, inktank ceph enterprise is a product combining the most stable version of ceph for object and block storage with a ceph management platform, enhanced integration tools, and support services. Inktank has done a brilliant job assembling a strong ecosystem around ceph and we. The latest contender is inktank, a service and support company formed by the creators of the ceph open source storage project. It is used extensively in ceph clients and daemons as well as in the linux kernel modules and its cpu cost should be reduced to the minimum. Red hat adds erasure coding in inktank ceph enterprise v1. We dont have anything against docker, we believe its excellent and we use it extensively. Red hat to acquire inktank sd times sd times software.
I guess the news shouldnt be a total surprise, given that inktank added red hat support to ceph a year ago. Last fall, when we launched inktank ceph enterprise, our flagship product, our goal was to shake up the storage industry by bringing the flexibility and power of open source to enterprises who understand that existing storage solutions wont scale much longer. For those that dont know me im the lead systems engineer for dreamobjects and have been working with ceph since 2010. Supermicros total solution for ceph scaleout cloud storage powered by red hat ceph storage and supermicro the supermicro ceph solution ataglance ceph optimized server configurations cloud storage with s3, openstack and mysql integration all flash and hybrid disk configurations deliver lowlatency performance. The product combines open source ceph software for object and block storage, and graphical management tools and support services. It is used extensively in ceph clients and daemons as well as in the linux kernel modules and its cpu cost should be reduced. Oct 31, 20 for its next trick, inktank tries to pull golden rabbit from ceph hat.
Red hat, the open source software provider, is squaring up to amazon in the storage market. Oct 30, 20 inktank, the company delivering ceph the massively scalable, open source, software defined storage system today announced inktank ceph enterprise. Join our free webinar wednesday, july 30, and learn how this new release couples a slate of powerful features with the tools needed to. Inktank, the company delivering ceph the massively scalable, open source, softwaredefined storage system, today announced it is teaming with alcatellucent to help service providers. Supermicros total solution for ceph scaleout cloud storage powered by red hat ceph storage and supermicro the supermicro ceph solution ataglance ceph optimized server. Inktank supports new enterprise release of open source ceph.
Open source cloud service provider inktank has launched an enterpriseready version of its ceph softwaredefined storage system. It will include erasure coding data protection to provide cost efficient backup and. Im excited to announce that this coming thursday at 10am pst, i will be guest hosting a case study webinar with inktank on dreamhosts cloud storage product, dreamobjects. Have you heard about inktank ceph and are interested to learn some tips and tricks for getting started quickly and efficiently with ceph. Red hat is making its way into the softwaredefined storage market.
In contrast, red hat favors a pure open source model. Red hat enterprise linux openstack platform on inktank ceph enterprise cinder volume performance performance engineering version 1. Only months after acquiring inktank, cephs parent company, red hat has released the next version of this open source, distributed storage system. Rht, the worlds leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire inktank, a leading provider of scaleout, open source storage systems. Ceph is the most popular openstack softwaredefined storage solution on the market today. Inktanks flagship technology, inktank ceph enterprise, delivers world class object and block storage software to enterprises deploying. Red hats buying inktank for its ceph storage smarts. Red hats ceph and inktank code repositories were cracked. Inktank delivers ceph, a scalable, open source, software defined storage system. For its next trick, inktank tries to pull golden rabbit from. Jun 18, 20 inktank, the company delivering ceph the massively scalable, open source, software defined storage system, today announced it is teaming with alcatellucent to help service providers manage. Dubbed inktank ceph enterprise, the product is a subscriptionbased.
For its next trick, inktank tries to pull golden rabbit. Inktank works with alcatellucent to integrate ceph. But while inktank is a young company, ceph itself has a longer history, going back to sage weils phd in 2005. Inktank ceph upgrade targets big data storage, red hat support as perhaps the only enterpriseready distributed storage platform that offers massive scalability and is available as opensource software. And yes, im saying cephcontainer, not cephdocker anymore. With all the cloud storage competition coming out of the woodwork. Apr 06, 2015 ceph introduction ceph, the future of storage, is a massively scalable, open source, softwaredefined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Inktank works with alcatellucent to integrate ceph storage. Rht, the worlds leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire inktank, a leading. Apr 30, 2014 many openstack fans prefer ceph to openstacks own swift storage because it provides both block storage and file storage capabilities, while swift focuses on object storage. May 15, 2014 have you heard about inktank ceph and are interested to learn some tips and tricks for getting started quickly and efficiently with ceph. Its products range in areas of iot, sdn, nfv, cloud, sdwan, ai, data centers, storage, security, and more.
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