Who’s ready for an objective object lesson in object storage?

IBM is planning to acquire CleverSafe, HGST bought Amplidata a while ago, and RedHat did the same with Ceph 18 months ago. If you put this information alongside the fact that disk shipments are doing very well, even when compared with Flash, it’s no wonder object storage is so hot right now. Why Cleversafe From my POV it’s a …

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ceph is not redhat

Ceph, like Linux & others, is an open-source project.

RedHat bought Inktank (or, really, some of its engineers) & is now trying to figure out how to jam a Ceph product in with its Gluster & other storage stories.

SUSE's involvement with Ceph pre-dates RedHat's & it also has engineers working on the project, including some ex-Inktank. SUSE Enterprise Storage based on Ceph has been part of SUSE OpenStack Cloud distro for a few years, and as a standalone product for about 12 months.