When Red Hat bought Ceph’s parent company Inktank, people were worried Red Hat would keep Ceph’s object store and file system to itself. Then, Red Hat announced it would letothers help decide on Ceph’s future. Now, SUSE, a rival Linux power, is taking Red Hat up on this with its Ceph-supporting release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 3.

Indeed, SUSE Enterprise Storage, a software-defined storage management program, is the first commercially supported solution based on the Ceph open-source project Jewel release. This is the first version in which the Ceph Filesystem (CephFS) has finally been declared stable. This make SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 a major release in every way.\

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