| Guided reading | Starting from the first line of code submitted in 2004, Ceph has grown from Sage Weil's graduation project to one of the most influential projects in the field of open source distributed storage. It has gone through many processes and challenges along the way. |
On March 22-23, the world's first Ceph Asia-Pacific Summit - Cephalocon APAC 2018, hosted by the Ceph China Community and hosted by DOIT, was successfully held in Beijing. To enhance industrial exchanges and build a more complete industrial ecology, this event was strongly supported by community volunteer groups and sponsors, which contributed to the successful landing of the first Asia-Pacific Summit in China. According to statistics, this summit attracted more than 2,500 people both offline and online.
On this occasion, Ceph experts from the summit stepped down from the altar and jointly accepted interviews with the technology media to discuss the future development of Ceph.
From community to commercial, the only way
In the interview, "Father of Ceph" Mr. Sage Weil said, "When Ceph was invented for the first time, I very much hoped that Ceph would be scalable, cover more clusters, and realize automatic processing technologies, such as data recovery, etc. Repeated work, Ceph now has a reputation and is a very good deployable system." At this stage, he has three concerns about Ceph, one is performance, the other is easy deployment, and the third is integration with third-party platforms .
At the same time, Mr. Sage also emphasized that, based on the work experience of integrating Ceph and other different components in recent years, the final conclusion is that productization is the only way out.
In this regard, Mr. Zhang Jiaju, chief solution architect of Red Hat , said that the community is our far-sighted perspective to make Ceph more and more ecologically prosperous, including connecting different ecological hardware and software. The community is relatively divergent, but from the product point of view , will converge to different fields and different industries, to be usable by an enterprise, so the first step of productization is to stabilize and produce a stable enterprise-level product that can be used.
In addition, Zhang Jiaju said, "The biggest difference between the community and the enterprise is that the company's products have a commitment to our customers, while for the community, everyone can use it freely, which is the difference for customers. In fact, our team It is a big team with the community development team and product development team. For example, in the enterprise version, if you encounter some problems that have not been solved by the upstream community, these problems will come to our community development team, and we will solve it together. Repair it."
Yijian Technology participated in it deeply and benefited a lot
In the past three years, the Ceph Chinese community has strengthened the publicity, promotion and popularization of Ceph's ideas and technologies in China, and more and more applications have been implemented, covering finance, government, games, operators, media, etc. many key industries.
From the start of zero in 2014 to the current market in full swing, Ceph allows more and more users to experience the benefits of Ceph, and has become the first choice for many users to name. At present, the Ceph Chinese community covers more than 10,000 people. Unlike other communities, the Ceph China community does not require registration and is a completely open hobby platform.
Liu Shimin, technical director of Yijian Technology Cloud Service Business Group, said, "Ceph has a good position among Chinese enterprises, but it cannot be rolled out quickly. In the past few years, Ceph's mission is to support cloud platforms such as OpenStack to implement, However, as Ceph matures, it is necessary to gradually replace enterprise-level ones. This is due to the characteristics of Chinese enterprises. When the products enter the aging stage, enterprises will say that Ceph is very good and can replace the previous ones. Therefore, performance is for enterprises. A complete cost calculation, Ceph's current state is gradually entering the core field of enterprises, in the aviation banking and financial insurance industries, Ceph has also been involved."
In the practical application of Ceph, Yijian Technology's technical capabilities in EB-level storage products have also been recognized by the industry. It is understood that in response to the national "Belt and Road" initiative, Yijian Technology is continuously promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and economy, absorbing international innovation resources, and in-depth cooperation with Intel in storage technology, covering storage acceleration, data encryption and all-flash memory, etc. A number of cutting-edge technology directions have also brought improvements in performance and security to the eKing Cloud basic cloud. In the next stage, Yijian Technology has conducted in-depth secondary development based on Ceph, launched hyper-converged all-in-one machines, storage all-in-one machines, etc., providing external object storage, block storage and file interfaces, covering common storage scenarios, suitable for different scales business needs. From deeply participating in international open source communities such as Ceph, to cooperating with top giants such as Deutsche Electric and Intel, Yijian Technology is using its own practice and exploration experience to gradually enter the international stage. Rapid development.
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