Charter members include leaders from Canonical;
CERN; Cisco; Fujitsu; Intel; Red Hat; SanDisk; SUSE
The Ceph Community, the worldwide collection of developers
working to build the popular Ceph software-defined storage project,
today announced the formation of an advisory board to assist the
community in driving the direction of open source software-defined
storage technology. The advisory board launches with the goal of
expanding and enhancing community participation and collaboration
for the Ceph project, working closely with the community’s
technical and user committees.
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The charter advisory board includes Ceph community members from
global IT organizations that are committed to the Ceph project,
including individuals from Canonical, CERN, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel,
Red Hat, SanDisk, and SUSE.
With the ability to provide object, block, and file system
storage in a single, unified storage cluster, Ceph is well-suited
for cloud infrastructures, such as OpenStack. The Ceph Community
has grown tremendously over the past several years and, according
to the most recent OpenStack Foundation user survey, Ceph is the
most popular block storage solution for OpenStack deployments.1
Tim Burke, vice president of Infrastructure Engineering
Development at Red Hat stated, “Red Hat is all about
collaboratively working among communities to accomplish vastly more
than any single company could do alone. When we acquired Inktank,
Red Hat's commitment was to maintain the spirit and involvement of
a diverse set of contributors in Ceph. While that collaboration
with community and partner members was strong even on an informal
basis, the creation of the Ceph advisory board formalizes this open
working relationship. We look forward to working with Ceph's
community and partner members to not only add features, but also to
improve the integration and ease of use into new workloads.”
The new Ceph Community advisory board is the forum for overall
Ceph Community participant cooperation and the orchestration of
feedback collection and resource allocation. With quarterly
meetings and monthly working group meetings, the Ceph Community
advisory board will manage the broad issues and opportunities that
are critical to the momentum and success of the Ceph
software-defined storage project.
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Christian Reis, vice president, Storage & Hyperscale,
Canonical“Canonical has driven Ceph from the outset as a key
technology in Ubuntu OpenStack and scale-out storage deployments,
and we are delighted to participate in the Ceph advisory board to
help broaden the input, reach and maturity of Ceph as an
enterprise-grade storage platform.”
Dan van der Ster, Data & Storage Services Group, CERN“Ceph
is an innovative open source storage system that CERN uses today to
manage close to 5 petabytes of cloud storage. Having participated
for nearly two years within its active contributor community, we
are pleased that the Ceph project is formalising this important
relationship with its community, and look forward to representing
the unique perspective of academic users and contributors at this
forum.”
Paul von Stamwitz, senior storage architect, Fujitsu“With our
mutual commitment to the ongoing success of Ceph, we look forward
to participating in this next step of community cooperation.”
Dan Ferber, Open Source Server Based Storage Technologist,
Intel“I am enthusiastic about bringing the perspectives and
challenges faced by enterprise and cloud service providers to the
Ceph community board. We believe that by working with the Ceph
community we can help Ceph to deliver performance and functionality
for current and the next generations of intelligent storage
systems.”
Patrick McGarry, Ceph community lead, Red Hat“The Ceph project
has a unique opportunity to capitalize on the momentum given to us
by Red Hat, and the greater Ceph ecosystem, to increase
contributions and streamline participation. While the Ceph project
has been growing, a participatory governance structure will enable
the community to use existing expertise to further mentor, assist
and lead the future of storage.”
Allen Samuels, engineering follow, SanDisk“Data center customers
are demanding extreme performance and massive capacity storage
solutions to address continuous scale challenges of applications,
services, and ultimately information growth. The formation of a
Ceph advisory board is essential to fueling Ceph as a scale-out
platform of choice. SanDisk is a major contributor to Ceph
development, enabling new use cases with the combination of Ceph
and flash memory technology, and now looks forward to contributing
our customer experience to the advisory board to drive broader Ceph
and flash storage adoption.”
Lars Marowsky-Brée, Distinguished Engineer, SUSE“The Ceph
advisory board is a key step for the Ceph project on the way from
an open source project to becoming an open standard with
industry-wide collaboration and adoption. SUSE is excited to
participate in this group effort to help the open source
software-defined storage revolution take shape.”
Connect with The Ceph Community
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Community
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About Ceph
Ceph®, The Future of Storage™, is a massively scalable, open
source, software-defined storage system that runs on commodity
hardware. Ceph has been developed from the ground up with the aim
of delivering object, block, and file system storage in one
self-managing, self-healing platform. With its highly scalable,
software-defined storage architecture, Ceph is an ideal replacement
for legacy storage systems and provides a unified solution for
cloud computing environments. Ceph is the foundation of many
commercial storage solutions and the brainchild of creator Sage
Weil.
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1 OpenStack Foundation User Survey, October
2015http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/october-2015-user-survey-highlights-increasing-maturity-of-openstack-deployments
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