Yahoo! adopts! Ceph! to! underpin! Flickr!, plans! storage-as-a-service! service!
Purple Palace says it will have hundreds of software-defined petabytes by year's end Strap yourself in, storage-buyers: those pushing a software-defined approach and/or object storage will soon be telling you that their wares are ready for anything because Yahoo!'s exascale photo storage service has re-platformed itself on Ceph. The Purple Palace also says it will soon have hundreds of petabytes under software-defined control and plans a storage-as-a-service service."