Posted on Tue 07 May 2013 in blog • Tagged with Ceph • 2 min read
Today, the developers released Ceph 0.61, codenamed cuttlefish. There are some interesting features in this new release, take a look.
One thing that will undoubtedly make Ceph a lot more palatable to RHEL/CentOS users is the availability of Ceph in EPEL. This was originally announced in late March …
Posted on Thu 21 February 2013 in blog • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read
For the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland, Syed Armani and I have submitted a talk on OpenStack high availability. Here’s how you can make sure it makes it into the program.
Our talk, More reliable, more resilient, more redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and beyond, is an extended …
Posted on Mon 28 January 2013 in blog • 1 min read
linux.conf.au 2013 has kicked off this morning, and here is a brief preview of my talks and related activities this week.
This afternoon, as part of the Cloud, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf, I am moderating the Grand Distributed Storage Debate. In this debate, we’ll have …
Posted on Sun 16 December 2012 in blog • Tagged with Philosophy • 2 min read
Over the past couple of years, it seems that the term ecosystem is being broadly applied to what we previously called a community. I don’t like that, and here’s why.
The origin of the term ecosystem, when applied to the environment in which a software project is being …
Posted on Thu 06 December 2012 in blog • Tagged with Philosophy • 4 min read
During lunch at the EMEA OpenStack day in London this week, I had a brief but excellent conversation with fellow OpenStacker Adam Spiers from SUSE. Our chat turned to the merits of working from home, and he encouraged me to write up a blog post about some of the ideas …