Ask most storage vendors what’s actually inside their product and you’ll get a brand name and a change of subject. We take the opposite approach: The Atom is built on Ceph, and we think that’s a selling point worth putting on the front page.
Proven where it counts
Ceph stores CERN’s scientific data. It powers many of the world’s largest clouds. It runs across more than 10,000 deployments worldwide. It is flexible, resilient and standards-based — one of the most capable storage technologies in existence.
When you buy The Atom, the software protecting your content is not something we wrote last year and hope survives contact with your workflow. It is technology that has been hardened by some of the most demanding data environments on Earth.
The honest catch — and what we do about it
Open source is a platform, not a product. Running Ceph well takes senior storage engineers: hardware validation, upgrade orchestration, performance tuning, round-the-clock monitoring. Most media organisations don’t have that team and can’t justify hiring one.
That gap is exactly where 33Mega sits. We package Ceph with validated Dell hardware, design the deployment around your workflow, integrate it, monitor it 24×7, manage the upgrades, and back the whole thing with a four-hour software SLA and next-business-day hardware replacement. You get the openness of the platform and the confidence of a product.
Why this matters for your exit
Because The Atom is Ceph, leaving us doesn’t strand you. Your data sits in software with a large global community and multiple commercial support providers. Your hardware is standard and reusable. Your applications talk standard S3 and file protocols.
No proprietary formats. No hostage negotiations. That’s not a bug in our business model — it’s the entire point of it.