Ubuntu's Shuttleworth bets on Inktank for cloud storage services

Cloud storage services startup Inktank today announced that Mark Shuttleworth, the entrepeneur behind Ubuntu Linux and the first African in space, has invested a million dollars in the company. Inktank provides support and services to enterprises who want to deploy the Ceph open source distributed file system, which is designed to run spread out across multiple servers—like the arms of…

 

Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth bets on Inktank for cloud storage services

Cloud storage services startup Inktank today announced that Mark Shuttleworth, the entrepreneur behind Ubuntu Linux and the first African in space, has invested a million dollars in the company. Inktank provides support and services to enterprises who want to deploy the Ceph open source distributed file system, which is designed to run spread out across multiple servers—like the arms of…

 

iWeek 2006: Mark Shuttleworth, Director, HBD Venture Capital

Topic: Challenges and strategies in ICT regulation in Africa: Mark Shuttleworth made his first appearance at iWeek and provided delegates with the lessons from other emerging markets. If South Africa is to succeed in providing Internet access more affordably, we can learn a lot from South Korea. They have the world’s cheapest broadband access. Spain…