Sage, Congrats to you and Inktank!
- Travis On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Haomai Wang <haomaiw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulation! > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Sage Weil <s...@inktank.com> wrote: > > Today we are announcing some very big news: Red Hat is acquiring Inktank. > > We are very excited about what this means for Ceph, the community, the > > team, our partners, and our customers. Ceph has come a long way in the > ten > > years since the first line of code has been written, particularly over > the > > last two years that Inktank has been focused on its development. The > fifty > > members of the Inktank team, our partners, and the hundreds of other > > contributors have done amazing work in bringing us to where we are today. > > > > We believe that, as part of Red Hat, the Inktank team will be able to > > build a better quality Ceph storage platform that will benefit the entire > > ecosystem. Red Hat brings a broad base of expertise in building and > > delivering hardened software stacks as well as a wealth of resources that > > will help Ceph become the transformative and ubiquitous storage platform > > that we always believed it could be. > > > > For existing Inktank customers, this is going to mean turning a reliable > > and robust storage system into something that delivers even more value. > In > > particular, joining forces with the Red Hat team will improve our ability > > to address problems at all layers of the storage stack, including in the > > kernel. We naturally recognize that many customers and users have built > > platforms based on other Linux distributions. We will continue to support > > these installations while we determine how to provide the best customer > > experience moving forward and how the next iteration of the enterprise > > Ceph product will be structured. In the meantime, our team remains > > committed to keeping Ceph an open, multiplatform project that works in > any > > environment where it makes sense, including other Linux distributions and > > non-Linux operating systems. > > > > Red Hat is one of only a handful of companies that I trust to steward the > > Ceph project. When we started Inktank two years ago, our goal was to > build > > the business by making Ceph successful as a broad-based, collaborative > > open source project with a vibrant user, developer, and commercial > > community. Red Hat shares this vision. They are passionate about open > > source, and have demonstrated that they are strong and fair stewards with > > other critical projects (like KVM). Red Hat intends to administer the > Ceph > > trademark in a manner that protects the ecosystem as a whole and creates > a > > level playing field where everyone is held to the same standards of use. > > Similarly, policies like "upstream first" ensure that bug fixes and > > improvements that go into Ceph-derived products are always shared with > the > > community to streamline development and benefit all members of the > > ecosystem. > > > > One important change that will take place involves Inktank's product > > strategy, in which some add-on software we have developed is proprietary. > > In contrast, Red Hat favors a pure open source model. That means that > > Calamari, the monitoring and diagnostics tool that Inktank has developed > > as part of the Inktank Ceph Enterprise product, will soon be open > sourced. > > > > This is a big step forward for the Ceph community. Very little will > change > > on day one as it will take some time to integrate the Inktank business > and > > for any significant changes to happen with our engineering activities. > > However, we are very excited about what is coming next for Ceph and are > > looking forward to this new chapter. > > > > I'd like to thank everyone who has helped Ceph get to where we are today: > > the amazing research group at UCSC where it began, DreamHost for > > supporting us for so many years, the incredible Inktank team, and the > many > > contributors and users that have helped shape the system. We continue to > > believe that robust, scalable, and completely open storage platforms like > > Ceph will transform a storage industry that is still dominated by > > proprietary systems. Let's make it happen! > > > > sage > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list > > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > Wheat > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >
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