Inktank Storage

Inktank Storage Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary of Red Hat;[1]
Private company
IndustryComputer storage
Founded2011
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Key people
Sage Weil (Founder and CTO)
Bryan Bogensberger (Founder, CEO)
Websitewww.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]

  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.