45Drives Sponsors Cephalocon 2025 as Technical Director Brett Kelly to Keynote on Ceph's High-Performance Storage Future
45Drives' platinum sponsorship of Cephalocon 2025 and Brett Kelly's keynote address highlight the critical evolution of Ceph storage technology to maintain competitiveness against emerging parallel file systems through hardware advancements like NVMe and HAMR technologies.
45Drives has announced its Platinum Sponsorship of Cephalocon 2025, scheduled for October 28–29, 2025, at the Vancouver Convention Center in Vancouver, Canada. The company will showcase its latest high-performance server technologies, including the NVMe Stornado F16, the Storinator Hybrid, and its latest Ceph gateway server hardware, all engineered to optimize performance, scalability, and flexibility for enterprise Ceph deployments.
Brett Kelly, Technical Director at 45Drives and a Ceph Foundation Board member, will deliver a keynote address titled "Ceph Momentum: Adapting Open-Source Storage for a High-Performance Future." His presentation will explore the critical importance of sustaining growth and innovation within open-source projects like Ceph while addressing the dual challenge and opportunity posed by competing technologies such as OpenZFS and emerging parallel file systems that are rapidly evolving with greater scalability and performance.
Kelly will emphasize that Ceph's continued dominance depends on fully embracing the latest advancements in storage hardware. With innovations such as Seagate’s HAMR 30TB HDDs and next-generation NVMe architectures like 45Drives’ Stornado F16, storage infrastructure is entering a new age of ultra-high capacity, low latency, and extreme throughput. This evolution is crucial as organizations face increasing data-intensive workloads requiring robust, scalable solutions.
Dr. Doug Milburn, President and Co-Founder of 45Drives, stated, "Ceph’s greatest strength has always been its adaptability and the passionate community that drives it forward. As the industry enters a new era of high-performance storage, we believe Ceph can lead the way by evolving to harness the latest in NVMe, HAMR, and hybrid technologies." The company's commitment to open-source collaboration positions it as a driving force behind accessible, high-performance storage infrastructure, with visitors to the 45Drives booth at Cephalocon 2025 able to experience hands-on demonstrations of Ceph-optimized systems and consult with technical experts.
For more information, visit https://www.45drives.com. Cephalocon serves as the official global conference for the Ceph storage community, uniting developers, users, and contributors to discuss the future of distributed storage and scalable infrastructure solutions.