Keynote: IBM’s Commitment, Investment, and Direction for Ceph in 2026
summary
IBM commits Ceph as core storage across at least 15 IBM products, provides nearly 80% of recent contributions, and has doubled the number of paid Ceph engineers working upstream. IBM funds a new $2 million upstream lab to migrate development, testing, performance and release infrastructure, delivers fast EC in the Tentacle release plus revamped BlueStore compression, expands dashboard multicluster and Day‑2 features, and targets full‑stack scaling to 10,000 OSDs with control‑plane hardening.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 2:30IBM’s commitment to Ceph
- 5:21Why Ceph excites IBM
- 7:50Progress and TCO improvements
- 9:15Ceph’s evolution and goals
- 11:46Community feedback and future plans
- 12:32Closing remarks and call to action
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