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you ' re going to want something with a nice GUI that just works ,” Weil notes . “ So , over the last three to four years , there ' s been a huge investment of time and resources in the Ceph community on the usability front . We ' ve created a whole new , integrated GUI dashboard for Ceph for management . We ' ve also developed an orchestrator layer for Ceph that can call out to whatever tools you use to deploy it , so that you can do just about anything you need to do from the new GUI . I think we ' ve made huge progress .”
Ceph for everyone Since the dawn of the open-source approach to software design , open source solutions have often garnered “ a reputation for being really complicated to use ,” Weil admits - adding that he and the Ceph team have spent the past few years painfully aware of that fact . Now , however , “ A lot of the stigma surrounding open source in general has gone away in recent years ,” he explains , something that perfectly aligns with the latest evolution of Ceph ’ s General User Interface ( GUI ).
“ These days , if you ' re a small business and you need 100 terabytes of storage ,
Challenges Enterprise storage is full of challenges . Apart from the obvious spiralling quantity of data being generated , the applications that create and use that data are also increasingly diverse and changing almost daily . Storage , of course , is also not immune to the broader IT skills crisis that enterprises find themselves dealing with every day . Add to that the constant revolving door of mergers and acquisitions in the storage industry and it ' s hard not to find a storage manager that hasn ' t been burned by obsoleted or sidelined proprietary solutions that have fallen out of favour . It ' s little wonder then that a platform like Ceph - able to flex and grow to meet ever changing demands across a huge variety of use cases - and do all that from within a vibrant open source community eliminating the lock-in problem , becomes deeply compelling .
The Ceph decade Looking to the future , the intersection of market trends with Ceph ’ s constantly developing capabilities ( Weil stresses that a sizable portion of the Foundation ’ s role is keeping up with cutting edge hardware developments to ensure Ceph continues to run smoothly , no matter what you plug it
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