Suse has acquired the open source Ceph and storage management framework OpenAttic from IT-Novum.
Suse uses OpenAttic as the management framework for Suse Enterprise Storage, enhancing its storage solution offering.
The acquisition includes a team of experienced open source developers moving to Suse.
Nils Brauckmann, CEO of Suse:
"For the first time, Suse is expanding through organic growth and technology acquisitions"
"We're seeing a revolution in storage, so companies will have to work with different storage technologies for the next few years."
With the acquisition, Suse also takes over the sponsorship of it-novum's OpenAttic open source project.
As with the OpenSuse Linux project, which Suse also maintains, the OpenAttic project will remain completely open and accessible to the community.