Ceph Enterprise - a disruptive period in the storage marketplace
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Recently R@CMon signed an agreement for Inktank Ceph Enterprise (aka ICE). Inktank is an open-source development and professional services company that spun out of DreamHost two years ago. And boy have they have been pretty busy since then - not only building an international open-source community around Ceph, but also solidifying the product through several major releases in conjunction with exploring enterprise support business models. It's both the innovation rate and the professional maturity that drew us to Ceph. The next release of ICE (due this month) includes support for Erasure Coding (think distributed RAID) and cache-tiering (think SSD performance for near spinning-disk cost)!