Sage Weil is the founder and chief architect of Ceph, a distributed storage platform.
Education
Weil earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Harvey Mudd College in 2000 and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 2007 at the University of California, Santa Cruz working with Professor Scott Brandt on consistency protocols, data distribution (CRUSH), and the metadata manager in the Ceph distributed file system.
Career
Sage now works for Red Hat as the chief architect of the Ceph project In May 1994 Sage developed a script based on work by Denis Howe and Giraldo Hierro that became the technology behind Sage launched in June 1995 and eventually sold it to Starseed, Incorporated. in 1997. As an undergraduate Sage worked with fellow Harvey Mudd College students Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, and Michael Rodriguez to build The site was registered and began hosting customers’ sites in 1997. incubated and eventually spun off
In 2011 Sage co-founded with (Chief Executive Officer) Bryan Bogensberger as the Chief Technology Officer and technical architect. was a professional services and support company for the open source Ceph file system.
The company was initially funded by and later supplemented by Mark Shuttleworth.
On 30 April 2014 it was announced that Red Hat would acquire Storage for $175 Million.