{"id":13026,"date":"2012-05-04T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/news\/?post_type=announcement&p=13026"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:29:17","slug":"our-babys-all-grown-up","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/news\/announcements\/our-babys-all-grown-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Baby’s All Grown Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps you recall Ceph<\/a>, the open source file system designed to manage exabytes of data across thousands of servers? No? Allow me to refresh your memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is this thing called Ceph. It\u2019s an open source file system designed to manage exabytes of data across thousands of servers. Now do you remember?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago Ceph was but a glimmer in the eye of DreamHost co-founder Sage Weil<\/a>, and today it has grown into an enormous open-source project with contributors spanning the globe. Ceph has been integrated into the Linux kernel and even plays nice with OpenStack<\/a> \u2013 the massively scalable open source cloud operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a software project, Ceph has really grown up in recent months. So much so that this ol\u2019 logo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2026wasn\u2019t really doin\u2019 it for us anymore. So, this week, we changed it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There\u2019s still the hint of a squid there, but I think you\u2019ll agree that this is much cleaner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u2019t just stop there, though. As of this week, ceph.com<\/a> is all new.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But wait \u2013 there\u2019s more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week DreamHost did something we\u2019ve never done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We launched a spinoff company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re calling it Inktank<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Squids have ink! Get it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ceph\u2019s technology has matured over the past year or so, the Ceph team has found themselves fielding more and more inquiries from companies and researchers who want to deploy Ceph within their organizations \u2013 but either aren\u2019t sure where to start or aren\u2019t sure how best to use Ceph for their particular applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It became clear to our team that Ceph would have its best chance at success if it had some kind of support structure behind it. Ceph is free!<\/strong> It\u2019ll always be free. And now it has a clear path for support, powered by many of the same engineers committing changes to its codebase every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inktank is a completely separate company with its own budget and its own org chart. The only things that DreamHost and Inktank employees share are friendship, office space (for now,) and a love of open source software. Also, soap in the bathroom. Maybe some other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inktank.com<\/a> launched this week, and it more than likely answers most of the questions sitting in your brain right now!<\/p>\n\n\n

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We DreamHosters get on well with the Ceph team. But you don\u2019t have to take my word for it\u2026here\u2019s a video that shows all of us working together in perfect harmony!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=WE7vm-k5fkg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve got any questions about this new endeavor of ours, please don\u2019t hesitate to post them in the comments! Inktankers are watching and waiting to get you the answers you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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