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“ Because it ' s so flexible and built to scale , Ceph doesn ' t require a lot of foreknowledge about where your organisation ' s going to be in a couple of years time . You can just expand your hardware footprint in whatever direction you end up growing ”
SAGE WEIL CEPH PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT , RED HAT
into ), as well as an ever-expanding ecosystem of vendors , users , and developers positions it ideally for a decade of meteoric growth . “ Ceph is a pretty mature piece of software at this point ,” Weil reflects . “ All of the important stuff is there and , in addition to building it out further , we ’ re starting to add a lot of polish .”
Craig Chadwell , VP of Product at SoftIron , reflects that “ open-source infrastructure has rapidly evolved and matured over the last decade and is in all likelihood going to be the way that most organisations deploy their IT footprint going forward .”
“ People like to call Ceph the Linux of storage , which I think is appropriate ,” adds Weil . “ Nobody thinks about which Unix they should buy because the open source one is the best , everyone ' s using it , and everyone is constantly improving it . Ceph is moving into that position in the storage space .”
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