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Keynote: Building and Sustaining Momentum in Open-Source Storage - Brett Kelly, Technical Director, 45Drives
This talk examines how Ceph sustains momentum, by keeping up with emerging hardware technology. The talk maps the opportunity–and pressure landscape as competing modern parallel file systems push scalability and performance frontiers. With storage media racing ahead, Seagate HAMR high density HDDs and next-generation NVMe platforms. Storage now delivers unprecedented capacity, throughput, and low-latency characteristics. The session outlines why Ceph remains a resilient, production-proven platform and details the architectural priorities required to keep leadership: tighter alignment with emerging media, end-to-end performance tuning, and design choices that convert raw device speed into real-world results. This talk will present a pragmatic roadmap for evolving Ceph to not just accommodate, but capitalize on, the newest high-performance environments and, in doing so, maintain momentum across the broader open-source ecosystem.
Keynote: Building and Sustaining Momentum in Open-Source Storage - Brett Kelly, Technical Director, 45Drives
This talk examines how Ceph sustains momentum, by keeping up with emerging hardware technology. The talk maps the opportunity–and pressure landscape as competing modern parallel file systems push scalability and performance frontiers. With storage media racing ahead, Seagate HAMR high density HDDs and next-generation NVMe platforms. Storage now delivers unprecedented capacity, throughput, and low-latency characteristics. The session outlines why Ceph remains a resilient, production-proven platform and details the architectural priorities required to keep leadership: tighter alignment with emerging media, end-to-end performance tuning, and design choices that convert raw device speed into real-world results. This talk will present a pragmatic roadmap for evolving Ceph to not just accommodate, but capitalize on, the newest high-performance environments and, in doing so, maintain momentum across the broader open-source ecosystem.
