DELL: Can you please introduce yourself?
A: I'm Ross Turk from Inktank and I'm Vice President of Community. My job is to make sure that the Ceph project is healthy and Inktank has a strong business. As you know, Inktank is the principle sponsor of the Ceph project and our responsibility is to market it, fund it and make sure that it's a strong project.
Q: Could you give us a brief introduction to Inktank and open storage project Ceph?
A: Ceph is an open source distributed storage platform. It is the perfect storage solution for OpenStack. Ceph has object storage and bloc storage capabilities that, though their self-managing and self-healing properties, allow you to get very cost-effective storage using just a very simple software layer on top of everyday hardware.
Q: Why should people use Ceph instead of the default capabilities that come with OpenStack for block storage?
A: Default capabilities of OpenStack for block storage is Cinder, which is in a way an abstraction layer. Beneath Cinder, Ceph is one of the options for block storage. The reason to use Ceph is because it has a really good scalability profile. It's easy to manage and it's the lowest cost per gigabyte that you can get in the market today.
Q: What are the ideal use cases for Ceph?
A: Cloud is definitely one of the ideal use cases, because it’s about massive scale, where cost is very important. Ceph provides the ability to manage a cluster by itself, and that is really important. Ceph is built for very large scale uses. Cloud is definitely one use case, HPC is definitely another as well as large scale backup archives. But we're really doubling down on Cloud because it's obvious that the trend lines up with Ceph strengths.
Q: Thank you very much.
A: Thank you.
Resources
- Inktank at Twitter: @Inktank
- Ross Turk at Twitter: @RossTurk
- Ross Turk’s Personal website
- Ceph at Twitter: @Ceph
- Ceph at Github
- Ceph Webpage
- Lecture on Ceph at OSCON 2012