Linux Foundation Announces Lineup for Vault Open Source Storage Event
Open source storage now has a convention all its own in the form of Vault. Organized by the Linux Foundation, this event will take place for the first time in March with speakers and sessions focused on distributed storage, the Btrfs and Ext4 file systems, memory management and much more.
Open source storage now has a convention all its own in the form of Vault. Organized by the Linux Foundation, this event will take place for the first time in March with speakers and sessions focused on distributed storage, the Btrfs and Ext4 file systems, memory management and much more. Read on for details.
Vault, which will be co-located with the invite-only Linux Storage, Filesystem and Memory Management Summit, takes place in Boston March 9 and 10. Highlights from the set of speakers and sessions, which the Linux Foundation announced a few days ago, include:
- Sage Weil, founder of the Ceph distributed storage system and now Ceph principal architect at Red Hat (RHT), which acquired Ceph last year, will deliver a keynote on “open source versus open standards.” Presumably he’ll be focusing on the fine but increasingly important distinction between these two categories, and the dangers of settling for “open standards” rather than actual open source code in storage solutions and more.
- Jan Kàra of SUSE and Chris Mason of Facebook (FB) will lead sessions on Ext4 and Btrfs, respectively. These promise to draw a more technically oriented crowd, but as the basic building blocks of Linux-based storage, these two file systems are vitally important for understanding where open source storage technology is headed.
- Chris Mason will also give a keynote on how Facebook uses Linux and other open source software in the data center. Understanding how technology giants deploy open source in practice is always a popular topic, so expect a well-attended room here.
- Allen Samuels, chief software architect, emerging data solutions at SanDisk, will speak about “At-Scale Data Centers and the Demand for New Storage Architectures,” another important topic for developers and organizations seeking the right scale in open source storage.
In addition to the Linux Foundation, which is organizing Vault, the event is also supported by Red Hat, SanDisk, Seagate and Simplivity.
