Sage Weil

In May 1994, Weil developed a script based on work by Denis Howe and Giraldo Hierro that became the technology behind WebRing. Weil launched WebRing in June 1995 and eventually sold it to Starseed, Inc. in 1997. == DreamHost ==

As an undergraduate, Weil worked with fellow Harvey Mudd College students Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, and Michael Rodriguez to build DreamHost. The site was registered and began hosting customers’ sites in 1997. DreamHost incubated and eventually spun off Inktank. == Inktank ==

In 2011, Weil co-founded Inktank with (CEO) Bryan Bogensberger as the CTO and technical architect. Inktank was a professional services and support company for the open source Ceph file system. The company was initially funded by DreamHost On 30 April 2014, it was announced that Red Hat would acquire Inktank Storage for $175 Million. 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. == Publications ==