It’s surely a testament to Red Hat’s prominence in the cloud arena that the makers of key enterprise technologies increasingly want to work with its cloud offerings, and on Tuesday, storage company Inktank provided a perfect example. Specifically, Inktank launched version 1.1 of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, an upgrade that’s certified for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
Inktank Ceph Enterprise combines the most stable version of Inktank’s Ceph — a massively scalable, open source, software-defined system for object and block storage — with a graphical manager, enhanced integration tools and support services.Inktank Ceph Enterprise combines the most stable version of Inktank’s Ceph — a massively scalable, open source, software-defined system for object and block storage — with a graphical manager, enhanced integration tools and support services. In addition to RHEL OpenStack compatibility, Inktank now also supports Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) commercial hypervisor product.
“There is a huge and growing market of enterprises relying on open source products to run their businesses,” Neil Levine, Inktank’s vice president of product management, told Linux.com. “Red Hat’s OpenStack solution is one of the most important distributions for OpenStack to penetrate the enterprise market.
“While Ceph was already integrated with OpenStack, this certification guarantees a seamless Red Hat experience for our mutual customers and cements Inktank’s place in the Red Hat and OpenStack ecosystem,” Levine added. “This new certification will be key for us as we move forward with driving adoption of software-defined storage and… Inktank Ceph Enterprise.”