Inktank Storage

Inktank Storage Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary of Red Hat;[1] Private company
Industry	Computer storage
Founded	2011
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California
Key people	Sage Weil (Founder and CTO) Bryan Bogensberger (Founder, CEO)
Website	www.inktank.com

Inktank Storage was the lead development contributor and financial sponsor company behind the open source Ceph distributed file system.^[2] Inktank was founded by Sage Weil and Bryan Bogensberger and initially funded by DreamHost,^[3] Citrix^[4] and Mark Shuttleworth.^[5]

Red Hat acquired Inktank Storage for $175 Million in April 2014.^[6]

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 doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[7] In August 2012, Inktank joined the Linux Foundation to further open source technologies such as Ceph.^[8] In September 2012, Mark Shuttleworth 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^[9] and was listed in CRN The 10 Coolest Storage Startups of 2012.^[10] In May 2012, Inktank was listed in CRN 10 Hot Emerging Vendors.^[11]

References

1. "Red Hat acquires Inktank". 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
2. Joseph F. Kovar (4 May 2012). "Startup Inktank Supports Ceph Open-Source Storage Technology". CRN. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
3. "DreamHost spins off Inktank, provides professional services for Ceph cloud storage". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
4. "Inktank Partners With Citrix to Support Ceph Distributed Storage in CloudPlatform". Marketwired.
5. "Open source champ Mark Shuttleworth invests $1M in Ceph storage startup". Retrieved 5 February 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
6. Lunden, Ingrid (2014-04-30). "Red Hat Buys Inktank For $175M In Cash To Beef Up Its Cloud Storage Offerings". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
7. Stephens, Tim. "Red Hat to acquire Inktank, a cloud storage company with UCSC roots". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
8. "Inktank's Ceph: An Open Source Storage Solution for the Enterprise - Linux Foundation". www.linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
9. "6 Storage Startups to Watch". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
10. "The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2012". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
11. "10 Hot Emerging Vendors For May 2012". Retrieved 5 February 2013.