CEPH
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The Ceph Foundation Since the first prototype of Ceph was launched back in 2007 , the community of enterprises , organisations , and users that use it has grown to touch a huge number of spaces , from small businesses to large scale enterprises ; from the scientific community to regional telecom carriers .
In November 2018 , a cluster of organisations actively involved in the development , support , and commercialisation of Ceph formed the Ceph Foundation , launching the new initiative under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation . The founding members included Amihan , Canonical , China Mobile , DigitalOcean , Intel , OVH , ProphetStor Data Services , Red Hat , SoftIron , SUSE , Western Digital , XSKY Data Technology , and ZTE .
“ I was pretty naive back then . I thought you just built something , open sourced it , and people would just start appearing to develop it , fix bugs , etc . and that ' s not how it works ,” laughs Weil . “ We had spent several years trying to add all the features that we thought Ceph had to have before people would be willing to use it ,” before the launch of the Foundation in 2018 . “ There are a lot of industry stakeholders that are selling or using Ceph as part of their business . So the Ceph Foundation became a way for those organisations to contribute funds that could be managed and spent to further Ceph ' s development and the community . Prior to the Foundation , it felt a lot more like begging - going around asking ' who wants to pay for X or Y ',” he adds . aimagazine . com 59