Red Hat Acquires Open-Source Storage Vendor Inktank for $175 Million

Ceph in some respects is seen as a competitor to the open-source Gluster filesystem project. Red Hat acquired Gluster in 2011 for $136 million and has since leveraged Gluster to become the core of the Red Hat Storage product line.

Inktank has a Ceph Enterprise product that includes the Calamari monitoring and diagnostics tool. Calamari will now transition from being a proprietary technology to being an open-source project.