Just a quick note to summarize what has been blogged this week in regards to Ceph. Earlier this week, Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis wrote a great comparative blog called “Object Storage approaches for OpenStack Cloud: Understanding Swift and Ceph“. Dmitry’s blog explores the architectures of OpenStack‘s Swift object store and Ceph. Considering that Ceph offers object, [...]
Tag: Software
There is an enormous amount going on this week that you should be aware of. We are sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking at two events, the Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara and SUSECon in Orlando. The Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara will run from Sep 17 -20. We will have an Inktank exhibit table [...]
Today is a big day for DreamHost and Ceph, and the culmination of years of hard work. Ceph was created to solve some serious technical challenges with scalable storage systems, and much of that was informed by problems that I had struggled with while scaling DreamHost’s infrastructure over the last decade. Today, DreamHost announced DreamObjects, [...]
Moving up to the big leagues can be a nerve racking task for anyone or any team. There are two kinds of individuals/teams in this world of ours, the ones that eat pressure and deliver results and the ones that are really… well…. like origami, they fold under pressure. There have been some great college football [...]
It was another memorable first for the Inktank team last night when we hosted our first meet up with MESS (Media Entertainment & Scientific Storage). The MESS community was created in July by Paul Evans of DAYSTROM and when we heard that they needed a location to host their Aug meet up, we jumped at the [...]
Last week, the Ceph community announced their first long term supported release of Ceph, code-named “Argonaut”. There have been many famous Argonauts in the past such as “Jason and the Argonauts” and of course the “Toronto Argonauts” which you may of never heard of unless you lived in Canada during the hockey off-season, but they [...]