Inktank Storage
Inktank Storage was the lead development contributor and financial sponsor company behind the open source Ceph distributed file system.[2] Inktank was founded by Sage Weil and Bryan Bogensberger and initially funded by DreamHost,[3] Citrix[4] and Mark Shuttleworth.[6] Inktank was created to offer professional services and support for the open source Ceph storage system.CTO and founder Sage Weil started the open source Ceph project in 2004 for his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[7] In August 2012, Inktank joined the Linux Foundation to further open source technologies such as Ceph.