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From YouTube: Keynote: Ceph Journey - A Perspective - Dr. Gerald Pfeifer, Chief Technology Officer, SUSE
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Keynote: Ceph Journey - A Perspective - Dr. Gerald Pfeifer, Chief Technology Officer, SUSE
Ceph is the number one Open Source Software-defined Storage solution for scale-out applications. But you already knew that and it’s the reason why you’re at Cephalocon!
As a key contributor to the Ceph project, SUSE will share our experiences and customer feedback on how we make it easier to consume and more accessible for enterprise use cases. We will explain why being part of the community is crucial to our journey and discuss key milestones along the way.
We will leave the audience with a sneak peek at future focus areas on the path to a fully self-managed, easy to use, global, cloud-native storage platform.
About Dr. Gerald Pfeifer
SUSE
Chief Technology Officer
As CTO Dr. Gerald Pfeifer leverages his deep understanding of infrastructure software, Open Source ecosystems, and respective business and technology aspects to help articulate, drive, and promote SUSE's technology vision, engaging with customers, partners, and Open Source communities all along the way.
VP Products & Technology Programs until 2019, Dr. Pfeifer drove the transformation of the SUSE portfolio from the world's first Enterprise Linux distribution to software-defined infrastructure including OpenStack cloud, Ceph storage, and networking solutions plus container-based application delivery around Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry. He also led partner-facing engineering teams, and in the early days served as project lead for Enterprise Linux and helped create SUSE's first offering for developers in 2004.
He has a long history in infrastructure and Open Source software and still contributes to key projects such as the GNU Compiler Collection and Wine. Before joining SUSE in 2003 he was Senior Researcher at C.I.E.S./University of Calabria, Italy, and Assistant Professor at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, where he received his doctorate and equally enjoyed research and teaching.
A
Good
morning,
everyone
I
knew
that
talking
after
sage
was
going
to
be
a
little
bit
difficult.
Having
seen
how
vividly
and
interestingly
he
presents
so
I
figured
I'd
start
with
a
with
a
nice
picture
of
an
under
under
sea
creature.
That's
not
the
kind
of
animal
you
would
expect
that
cephalic
on,
but
that's
the
best
shot
like
I
managed
to
get
of
myself.
This
is
actually
what
I
did
last
month.
I
was
training
to
be
a
dive
professional.
Just
in
case
this
whole
software-defined
storage
and
open
source
doesn't
work
out.
A
I
have
a
I
have
a
second
leg
now
preparing
for
preparing.
For
this
event,
I
actually
got
curious
of
my
own
personal
history,
around
Seth
I'm,
now
CTO
at
Sousa
that
actually
started
May.
First
before
it
I
was
running
the
products
organizations
for
product
management,
which
means
people
always
have
ideas
of
you
need
to
do
this
product
or
can't
we
do
suzay
whatever,
and
one
of
those
ideas
that
actually
someone
a
colleague
of
mine,
called
Lars
he's
actually
very
engaged
around
self
sits,
sits
on
the
board
now
product
to
us.
A
As
early
as
2010
was,
let's
do
storage.
Let's
do
software-defined
storage,
there
is
this
new
project
called
safe,
I
think
actually
Lars
may
have
brought
it
up
earlier.
2010
is
when
I
could
find.
The
first
note
anything
before
I
have
in
my
inbox
was
actually
talking
about
tick-borne
encephalitis,
which
is
not
so
much
of
a
good
thing,
even
if
it
contains
the
string
safe
as
early
as
2011,
in
an
internal
communications
talking
about
portfolio
etc.
A
It's
not
just
about
the
code.
It's
not
just
about
the
license
performance
quality,
all
those
things
that
you
know
enterprise
users
or
expect
it's
really
about
the
community
and
so
being
at
an
event
like
this
and
seeing
how
vibrant,
how
strong
this
community
around
self
is,
and
now,
with
the
safe
foundation,
everything
I'm
I'm,
more
convinced
than
ever
before,
that
going
with
self
and
for
customers.
Users
going
with
self
is
really
the
right
choice,
because
the
technology
is
there,
which
is
great,
but
there's
also
this
community
and
there.
A
A
It's
usually
for
one
out
of
two
reasons:
the
first
one
is
to
stretch
our
own
itch:
I
can
talk
for
myself
and
probably
similarly
for
you
or
for
those
of
your
developers,
most
open-source
projects,
I'm
engaged,
mostly
in
my
spare
time
now,
I
have
joined
or
I
have
started
interacting
with
because
there
was
something
I
needed
to
do
or
something
I
tried
to
do,
and
there
was
an
issue.
So
you
report
the
back
or
you
fix
a
typo
or
something
like
that.
So
that's
one
case.
A
The
other
case
is
actually
serving
others
and
inform
of
your
inity,
your
event
or
whatever
and
I
will
argue
that
safe
actually
has
been
serving
customers
and
users
really
well
and
there's
three
example:
three
examples:
I
brought
with
me:
a
one
is
University
of
Maine.
They
actually
converted
their
storage
to
a
cluster
running
CFS
and
they
put
two
million
files
in
one
directory
for
whatever
key
reason.
Eric
and
I
see
someone
shaking
it.
A
Yeah
I
agree,
but
for
application,
that's
what
made
sense
and
despite
is
enormous,
scaling,
safe
or
perhaps
because
of
that,
their
workload
spared
up
by
a
factor
of
two
another
interesting
case
is
there
was
a
big
technology
firm
and
they
had
reserved
they
wanted
to
build
up
a
safe
cluster.
They
had
reserved
five
days
because
clearly
it's
a
difficult
thing.
It
turns
out
they
were
able
to
provision
cluster
with
more
than
hundred
nodes
in
less
than
less
than
or
about
three
hours.
A
There
is
a
government
agency
and
deployed
a
small
store,
a
petabyte
cluster,
and
they
are
using
that
to
collect
video
feeds
and
then
they
want
to
predict
traffic
flow
in
real
time
and
that
talks
to
the
performance
and
the
latency
guarantees
that
self
can
make
these
days.
And
then
you
know
having
productized
and
supported
customers
with
say.
A
If
I
can
tell
you
the
speed
improvements
that
we
have
seen
on
self,
both
on
block
and
self
FS
really
have
been
very,
very
significant
and
what
used
to
be
sometimes
a
challenge
because
resiliency
scaling
those
were
attributes,
people
and
for
performance
was
like
okay.
Sh
is
now
more
and
more
becoming
it:
okay,
ish,
okay
and
and
really
an
advantage
that
we
see.
A
A
I
mean
it
does
everything
I
need,
but
I
need
to
spend
too
much
time
to
learn
too
much
time
to
deploy
too
much
time
then
to
manage
and
I
don't
have
all
those
experts.
So
how
can
you
make
it
easier?
And
that's
really
where
a
colleague
of
mine
who
actually
Larry,
who
who
was
responsible
in
product
management,
he
came
early
and
said
we
need
to
do
something
about
usability.
We
need
to
provide
a
graphical
user
interface
that
runs
in
a
web
browser
and
so
that's
an
investment.
A
Accept
those
innovations
and
really
extend
open
arms
help.
Integrate
I
mean
talk
about
it,
promote
that's,
really,
that's
really
something
that
I'm
really
really
happy
to
see
and
if
I
have
to
name
two
three
reasons
why
I
believe
self
is
going
to
be
successful
and
really
keep
growing
as
a
community
and
as
a
technology
I
think
it's
this
openness,
this
embracing
of
contributions
and
really
different
groups
of
users
and
vendors
working
together
and
clearly
having
a
safe
foundation,
helps
with
that.
So.
A
Usability
clearly
was
one
and
another
area
where
we
have
seen
quite
some
demand,
and
quite
some
improvements
is
around
the
unified
storage.
I
mean
it's
it's
interesting.
It
was
interesting
to
hear
sage
talk
about
how
self
originally
in
on
the
first
slides,
was
about
distribute
being
a
distributed
file
system,
because
the
use
cases
that
we
looked
at
originally
and
where
people
felt
most
comfortable
using
safer,
around
object,
store
and
block
storage,
but
ffs
really
has
been
catching
up.
A
Originally,
we
had
to
caution
customers
and
say,
like
you
know,
let's
do
performance
validation,
it's
nice,
that
you
want
to
use
this,
but
let's
make
sure
it
fits
your
use
case
and
now,
over
the
last
one
two
years
CFS
really
has
has
grown
and
has
grown
in
instability
and
performance.
Another
one
I
mentioned
is
deployment
where
with
salt-based,
deep
sea
and
in
in
the
safe
dashboard,
really
we
feel
today
we
have
a
good
solution,
but
there
is
others
and
it's
fine
to
have
competing
solution
when
it
comes
to
things
like
that.
A
There's
multiple
approaches
and
and
and
perfectly
happy
to
see
that
oops
another
area
is,
is
really
heterogeneity
not
in
not
just
in
the
kind
of
storage
you
provide,
but
in
the
systems
you
serve,
unfortunately,
as
much
as
it
would
love
to
not
everyone
uses
free
and
open
software.
So
we
don't
just
have
Linux
user
or
or
perhaps
BSD
users.
We
have
Windows
users,
we
have
VMware
and
so
having
a
nice
Kazi
interface
to
serve
those
platforms
has
has
been
really
important
and
last
but
not
least,
and
nch
also
mentioned
that
it's
really
about
ecosystems.
A
You
know
the
times
where
there's
one
vendor
and
you
got
hardware
software
services.
Everything
from
that
one
vendor
are
pretty
much
gone.
So
now
you
you
get
hardware
here,
possibly
from
different
vendors,
the
operating
system
or
a
platform.
Their
applications
there.
So
what's
really
important
is
that
there
are
those
vendors
work
together
in
their
communities.
They
can
work
together
in
communities
Intel
being
mentioned.
As
an
example
is
a
really
good
one.
So
we
work
together
in
communities
and
make
sure
when
you
come
as
a
user.
A
Those
pieces
work
together,
and
this
is
the
only
product
slide,
I'll
be
using
and
I
won't
actually
be
talking
to
the
product.
Tomorrow
is
the
day.
So
this
is
the
the
sneak
preview.
If
you
want
tomorrow
is
the
day
where
we
will
be
launching
the
ninth
release
of
a
self-paced
product,
souza,
enterprise
storage,
6,
it's
based
on
Nautilus,
so
all
that
sage
talked
about
earlier
is
in
there
and
it's
all
I'll
be
saying
about
that
release.
I
do
want
to
say
something.
I
do
want
to.
A
Thank
you,
those
of
you
in
the
in
the
developer
communities,
those
of
you
who
work
on
the
safe
foundations,
those
of
you
who
helped
organize
events
like
this
users,
who
provide
input,
bug
reports
without
your
help.
Without
this
this
community
aspect,
we
wouldn't
be
able
to
have
have
such
a
solution,
but
it's
not
over
over
now,
I
mean
clearly.
Sage
has
has
a
vision
of
a
road
ahead.
A
A
Con
and
container
izing
safe
self
is
a
very,
is
a
very
good
use
case,
or
has
many
good
use
cases,
one
of
which
is
hyperconvergence
so
also
container
izing,
something
like
OpenStack,
for
example,
so
that
you
then
have
compute
networking
storage
everything
everything
containerized
running
on
the
same
nodes
which
opens
opens
new
applications.
Another
one
in
it
originally
seemed
a
little
bit.
A
Outlandish
is
what
what
people
call
AI
ops
so
using
artificial,
intelligent
in
op
intelligence
in
operations,
and
the
idea
here
is
that
self
is
very,
is,
is
already
very
scalable
and
very
reliant,
but
really
continue
their
journey
make
self.
If
you
want
not
just
self
managing
but
also
self
optimizing
self-healing,
so
that
there
is
less
and
less
operator
engagement,
you
need
another
element
which,
which
we
are
looking
into,
is
interoperability.
A
I
mentioned
Windows,
remember,
I
scuzzy
is
great,
but
there
are
other
approaches
we're
looking
into
where
we
can
connect
to
and
serve
those
platforms
even
even
more
tightly.
We
hope
to
have
a
bigger
announcement
on
that
later
later
this
year
and
then
obviously
and
containerization
helps
with
that.
There
is
hybrid
cloud
and
channel
consumption
model.
How
do
we
actually
consume
some?
A
You
have
a
great
event
here.
You
have
a
great
Saif,
Ali
Khan
and
also
enjoy
Barcelona.
My
real
recommendation
for
an
event
like
this
is
obviously
go
to
presentations
and
learn,
but
also
mingle
if
you're
developer.
Obviously
you
want
to
talk
to
other
developers,
use
the
opportunity
to
talk
with
users.
If
your
user
grabs
some
developers
and
bite
off
the
ears
on
what
you
really
think
is
is
something
you
think
you
should
be
doing,
but
don't
forget
to
celebrate.
Saif
has
come
a
very
long
way.
A
Saif
has
a
very
bright
future
and
all
of
you
by
definition,
because
you
came
here
to
save
Ali
Khan
because
you
contributed
code.
We
are
interesting
in
self.
Are
part
of
the
journey
so
be
proud
of
that
and
celebrate
in
last
but
not
least,
if
you
have
children
or
you
like
plush
animals,
we
have
1000
of
those
Kiko's
over
there
to
sue
the
booth
and
I'll
be
sharing
Sun
with
you.
If
you
don't
like
them,
give
them
to
someone
who
has
children,
please
don't
feed
them
to
your
dogs,
thanks
for
only
fish
enjoy.