“ Ceph is designed to provide a reliable storage service out of unreliable components ”
SAGE WEIL CEPH PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT , RED HAT
“ The Ceph Foundation is essential to the Ceph community and our customers because its members are all invested in the development and progression of Ceph ,” says Aaron Joue , founder and CEO of Ambedded Technology - which combines Ceph technology with its own line of decentralised Arm servers .
The power of the Foundation , continues Kyle Bader , a Data Foundation Architect at Red Hat , lies in its ability to drive the industry to “ deliver on the promise of democratising software defined storage through open source in a way that ’ s very similar in the way that Linux led to the democratisation of the operating system .”
That democratisation , adds Craig Chadwell , VP of Product at SoftIron , creates the necessary competition ( centred around the foundation itself ) to push the Ceph commercial ecosystem to even greater heights . “ The Ceph community is very large and robust . The Ceph Foundation helps to enliven and support that community , which in turn ensures that there will always be other options out there so that we can maintain that no vendor lock-in value proposition ,” he explains . “ It really forces us to continually challenge ourselves to deliver solutions that are uniquely solving customer problems , because the reality is , if a customer can move away and there ' s something providing more value out there , they will . It keeps us honest and on our toes .”
Philip Williams , Product Lead at Canonical , reflects that “ a funny thing about the open source world is that essentially we ’ re all competitors , but we ' re also all working together to make something that is available for free even better .”
60 February 2022