LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 03/28/13 — Inktank, the only company to provide enterprise-level support for the , today announced a cooperation with open-source professional services specialists hastexo. This collaboration encompasses architectural consulting, systems design and implementation, and courseware development for training on Ceph.
, a professional services company headquartered in Austria and serving customers on five continents, has been an active part of the Ceph community for nearly two years. As an independent professional services organization, hastexo advises its customers on the suitability and applicability of open-source distributed storage software, tailored to individual customer requirements. This includes Ceph technology, where hastexo has expertise guiding customers in Ceph systems design for high availability and cloud applications.
As part of the cooperation, hastexo will continue to provide Ceph related professional services to customers world-wide, and also collaborate with Inktank on the development of training courseware for Ceph. The first classes based on the new courseware are expected to be available in the second quarter of 2013.
“Ceph is rapidly emerging as one of a handful of technologies turning enterprise storage upside down,” said Florian Haas, CEO at hastexo. “It is a very advanced storage system suitable not only for massively scalable distributed storage, but also for cloud and high availability configurations. All three of these types of deployments is what we excel in. To have the backing of Inktank-s engineering team for delivering our services is an immense benefit not only to ourselves, but foremost to our customers.”
“We are excited to formalize our relationship with hastexo. We have been collaborating with them for a couple years both directly and through the community and this solidifies an already strong partnership,” said Inktank CEO Bryan Bogensberger. “We-re eager to back hastexo with our engineering resources so they can deliver the best possible customer experience. In addition, we are looking forward to get Ceph training out to the market, and hastexo-s insight into courseware development and methodology is a great asset to our own training team.”
To learn more about hastexo professional services related to Ceph, visit .
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Ceph, The Future of Storage, is a transformative, universal storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Ceph is the first and only distributed storage solution designed to enable object, block, and filesystem storage in a single cluster with unlimited scalability. Ceph is capable of auto-scaling to the Exabyte level and beyond, runs on commodity hardware, is self-healing and self-managing, and has no single point of failure. Ceph is in the Linux kernel, can be accessed natively via programming languages, can be accessed via the Swift and S3 APIs; is integrated with the OpenStack cloud operating system; and is integrated with the Apache CloudStack project. As a result of its open source nature, this portable software defined storage platform may be installed and used in public or private clouds. Please visit for more information.
Inktank is the company delivering Ceph — the massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. Launched by some of the leading developers of Ceph, Inktank-s mission is to help organizations fully leverage the transformative power of Ceph to decrease storage costs, increase operational flexibility and help them free themselves from restrictive and expensive proprietary storage systems. Inktank provides best-in-class professional services and support offerings to enterprises, service providers, and cloud platforms. Please visit for more information.
hastexo is an independent professional services organization specializing in open source solutions for high availability, distributed storage, and cloud computing. The company is highly respected in the open source community and offers its services world-wide. hastexo currently serves customers on five continents on a 24/7 basis with its unique Ask The Expert Now system, and continuously expands its customer base. hastexo-s web site is , and the company can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn.
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