Ceph, Gluster and OpenStack Swift are among the most popular and widely used open source distributed storage solutions deployed on the cloud today. This talk aims to briefly introduce the audience to these projects and covers the similarities and differences in them without debating on which is better. All three projects often have to solve the same set of problems involved in distribution, replication, availability, access methods and data consistency.
Prashanth Pai works as Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is primarily associated with and contributes to integration efforts in open source projects GlusterFS and OpenStack Swift.
Thiago da Silva is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is currently the project lead for Swift-on-File, a DiskFile API implementation that allows Swift to access files on a POSIX filesystem. He's also a core developer in the OpenStack Swift community. Prior to joining Red Hat... Read More →
