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<h2 id="webring">WebRing</h2> <p>In May 1994, Weil developed a script based on work by <a href="/facts/Denis_Howe_(editor)/b0MWBumI">Denis Howe</a> and Giraldo Hierro that became the technology behind WebRing. Weil launched <a href="/facts/WebRing/Yu2k97Ka">WebRing</a> in June 1995 and eventually sold it to Starseed, Inc. in 1997. </p> <h2 id="dreamhost">DreamHost</h2> <p>As an undergraduate, Weil worked with fellow <a href="/facts/Harvey_Mudd_College/8Prb9JeP">Harvey Mudd College</a> students Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, and Michael Rodriguez to build <a href="/facts/DreamHost/fJCu8vj4">DreamHost</a>. The site was registered and began hosting customers’ sites in 1997. <a href="/facts/DreamHost/fJCu8vj4">DreamHost</a> incubated and eventually spun off <a href="/facts/Inktank_Storage/SzFldPFo">Inktank</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="inktank">Inktank</h2> <p>In 2011, Weil co-founded <a href="/facts/Inktank_Storage/SzFldPFo">Inktank</a> with (CEO) Bryan Bogensberger as the CTO and technical architect. Inktank was a professional services and support company for the open source <a href="/facts/Ceph_(file_system)/EU6zMFbx">Ceph file system</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The company was initially funded by <a href="/facts/DreamHost/fJCu8vj4">DreamHost</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> and later supplemented by <a href="/facts/Mark_Shuttleworth/cgJ218ec">Mark Shuttleworth</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> On 30 April 2014, it was announced that <a href="/facts/Red_Hat/5rhmBLBa">Red Hat</a> would acquire Inktank Storage for $175 Million.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>In May 2015, he donated $3 million to the UC Santa Cruz to support research in open-source software. The Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software at the university was also established.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ol><li>Weil, Sage; Leung, Andrew; Brandt, Scott A.; Maltzahn, Carlos (2007), "RADOS: A Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Storage Service for Petabyte-scale Storage Clusters", <a href="http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/SC07/resources/rados-pdsw.pdf"><i>Proceedings of the ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2007 (PDSW 07)</i></a> (pdf)</li> <li>Weil, Sage; Brandt, Scott A.; Miller, Ethan L.; Maltzahn, Carlos (2006), "CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data", <a href="http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-sc06.pdf"><i>Proceedings of SC '06</i></a> (pdf)</li> <li>Weil, Sage; Brandt, Scott A.; Miller, Ethan L.; Maltzahn, Carlos; Long, Darrell D. E. (2006), "Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System", <a href="http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-osdi06.pdf"><i>Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06)</i></a> (pdf)</li> <li>Weil, Sage; Wang, Feng; Xin, Qin; Brandt, Scott A.; Miller, Ethen L.; Long, Darrell D. E. (2006), "Ceph: A Scalable Object-Based Storage System", <a href="http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/ssrctr-06-01.pdf"><i>Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-01</i></a> (pdf)</li> <li>Weil, Sage; Pollack, Kristal; Brandt, Scott A.; Miller, Ethan L. (2004), "Dynamic Metadata Management for Petabyte-Scale File Systems", <a href="http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-sc04.pdf"><i>Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing (SC '04)</i></a> (pdf)</li> <li>Weil, Sage; Brandt, Scott A.; Miller, Ethan L. (2004), "Intelligent Metadata Management for a Petabyte-Scale File System", <a href="http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-isw04.pdf"><i>2nd Intelligent Storage Workshop</i></a> (pdf)</li></ol> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"O'Reilly Open Source Awards - OSCON 2014". YouTube. O'Reilly. Retrieved 25 July 2014. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exbHzP2MH70" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exbHzP2MH70</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"DreamHost spins off Inktank, provides professional services for Ceph cloud storage". Retrieved 5 February 2013. <a href="https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=72305" target="_blank">https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=72305</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Startup Inktank Supports Ceph Open-Source Storage Technology". Retrieved 5 February 2013. <a href="http://www.crn.com/news/storage/232901497/startup-inktank-supports-ceph-open-source-storage-technology.htm" target="_blank">http://www.crn.com/news/storage/232901497/startup-inktank-supports-ceph-open-source-storage-technology.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"DreamHost spins off Inktank, provides professional services for Ceph cloud storage". Retrieved 5 February 2013. <a href="https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=72305" target="_blank">https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=72305</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Open source champ Mark Shuttleworth invests $1M in Ceph storage startup". Retrieved 5 February 2013. <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/09/11/open-source-champ-mark-shuttleworth-invests-1m-ceph-storage-startup/" target="_blank">http://gigaom.com/2012/09/11/open-source-champ-mark-shuttleworth-invests-1m-ceph-storage-startup/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Red Hat to Acquire Inktank, Provider of Ceph". Archived from the original on 1 May 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140501235626/http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/4/red-hat-to-acquire-inktank-provider-of-ceph" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140501235626/http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/4/red-hat-to-acquire-inktank-provider-of-ceph</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>https://news.ucsc.edu/2015/05/sage-weil-gifts.html <a href="https://news.ucsc.edu/2015/05/sage-weil-gifts.html" target="_blank">https://news.ucsc.edu/2015/05/sage-weil-gifts.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>