Inktank Brings Ceph Open Source Cloud Storage to the Enterprise
November 4, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Ceph, the open source, scalable, software-defined storage platform for the cloud and Big Data, is officially ready for the enterprise. That’s what Inktank, the company behind the system, has indicated with the release of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, which is now publicly available.
Inktank is offering the solution on a subscription basis. It offers support services and value-added deployment tools related to the Ceph platform, which itself is free and open source, and features Ceph version 0.67, which includes important enterprise functionality such as copy-on-write and compability with the Swift API, as well as a graphical management application aptly named Calamari…
Inktank is pitching its Ceph Enterprise offering as the best solution in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO) and ease of integration with other key open source cloud tools, such as OpenStack, Apache CloudStack and virtualization software. The company is also emphasizing the flexibility of the platform, calling it "future-proofed" because it is extendable and doesn’t force customers to choose between block storage and object storage…
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