Charter members include leaders from Canonical; CERN; Cisco; Fujitsu;
Intel; Red Hat; SanDisk; SUSE
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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.
Supporting Quotes
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."
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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.
Red Hat is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the U.S. and
other countries. The OpenStack mark is either a registered
trademark/service mark or trademark/service mark of the OpenStack
Foundation, in the United States and other countries, and is used with
the OpenStack Foundation's permission. Red Hat is not affiliated with,
endorsed or sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation, or the OpenStack
community.
1 OpenStack Foundation User Survey, October 2015
http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/october-2015-user-survey-highlights-increasing-maturity-of-openstack-deployments
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