Cephalocon 2024

The talk will focus on how we can ensure that Ceph remains competitive with other proprietary storage systems over the coming years.

The evolution of data centers for the last several decades is evolving from siloed enterprise data centers to cloud data centers then hybrid cloud architecture. More than ever, customers are asking for a consistent architecture for the on-prem data centers behave like cloud – Cloud native architecture on prem. This is perfect for Ceph since we have seen evidence of Ceph adoption in enterprises across different industries.
 
Ceph’s vision is to serve wide variety of workloads in data centers and Ceph has the best technology to address today’s storage business needs. This talk will describe the topics and focus areas that IBM is proposing to the Ceph open-source community to accelerate Ceph adoption for enterprise workloads. We would like to see the larger community invest and innovate to accelerate these capabilities. 

Come meet with the board and get better insight into what the foundations priorities are to help support the project in 2025. We will discuss our budget, our priorities, how to engage with us, and most of all, how you can get engaged in our efforts to ensure the project remains vibrant and successful.

As an “open source first” company, Bloomberg believes that open source is a community action and that there’s a collective responsibility to shift the focus of the community from simply using open source software tools to being active and responsible agents in the health, longevity, and security of the open source ecosystem.

At our previous Cephalocon keynote in 2023, we highlighted how we had been sitting on the sidelines observing the Ceph community dynamic, while slowly dipping our toes into the water. This culminated in some of our first upstream contributions to fix critical Ceph features such as Multisite and S3 Notifications.

We now want to discuss principles of open source engagement and how we want to encourage a higher level of engagement within all aspects of the Ceph project and community. We’ll discuss our involvement on the governing board, support for Ceph Day events, joining the Ceph Steering Committee, and our day-to-day upstream contributions.

We’re in. Are you?

Come meet with the board and get better insight into what the foundations priorities are to help support the project in 2025. We will discuss our budget, our priorities, how to engage with us, and most of all, how you can get engaged in our efforts to ensure the project remains vibrant and successful.