inktank and hastexo From Austria Partnering

inktank, Storage, Inc., a company providing enterprise provider support for the Ceph Distributed Storage System, announced a
cooperation with open-source professional services specialists hastexo Professional Services GmbH.

This collaboration encompasses architectural consulting, systems design and
implementation, and courseware development for training on Ceph.

hastexo, 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 HA and cloud
applications.

As part of the cooperation, hastexo will
continue to provide Ceph related professional services to customers worldwide, 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 HA 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."