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Ceph Community Forms Advisory Board to Advance Software-Defined Storage InnovationThe 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. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151027005949/en/ 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 populr block storage solution for OpenStack deployments.1 Tim Burke, vice president of Infrastructure Engineering Development at Red Hat (News - Alert) 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
Dan van der Ster, Data & Storage Services Group, CERN
Paul von Stamwitz, senior storage architect, Fujitsu (News - Alert)
Dan Ferber, Open Source Server Based Storage Technologist, Intel (News - Alert)
Patrick McGarry, Ceph community lead, Red Hat
Allen Samuels, engineering follow, SanDisk (News - Alert)
Lars Marowsky-Brée, Distinguished Engineer, SUSE Connect with The Ceph Community
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 View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151027005949/en/ |