Ceph Days Raleigh 2026

Bringing Ceph to Raleigh ¶

A full-day event dedicated to sharing Ceph's transformative power and fostering the vibrant Ceph community in Raleigh!

Hear directly from Ceph experts, core contributors, customers, partners, and community members as they share the status of the Ceph project, recent Ceph project improvements and roadmap, Ceph community news, and more! The day ends with a networking reception.

Important Dates ¶

• CFP Opens: 2026-01-05
• CFP Closes: 2026-02-16
• Registration Opens: 2026-02-16
• Speakers receive confirmation of acceptance: 2026-03-03
• Schedule Announcement: 2026-03-06
• Event Date: 2026-03-25

CFP and Registration ¶

The Call for Papers (CFP) is now closed, but there is still time to register!

Register Here!

Schedule ¶

Time	Talk	Speaker
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Check-in and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM	Welcome	Sam Werner IBM
9:10 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote - State of Ceph	Neha Ojha IBM
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM	🎤 FastEC in Ceph Tentacle: A Technical Deep Dive into Next-Gen Erasure Coding Performance	Mitch Hall 45 Drives
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Tea/Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	🎤 Squishing Squids - A Ceph Compression Guide	Bryan Stillwell Clyso
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM	🎤 Ceph CI and Developer Tooling: Past, Present, and Future	David Galloway IBM
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM	🎤 10 years of Ceph at Walmart	Bharath Krishna Maddi (pictured), Anton Thaker and Prajwal Kabbinale Walmart Global Tech
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM	🎤 Toward One-Button Ceph: Engineering the Future of Autonomous Storage	Dan van der Ster Clyso
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	⚡️ BXC - An Architecture for Lazy RBD Imaging and Snapshot Exports	Khayyam Saleem Digital Ocean Alisha KC Digital Ocean
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM	⚡️ Ceph EC Performance Journey: Classic vs. Fast EC	Vikhyat Umrao IBM
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	⚡️ Why is my SSD Pool so Slow? Decoupling min_size from Write Acknowledgment	Andrew Malsbury FoleyBridge Solutions
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	⚡️ Detect, Decide, Fence: Resolving Netsplits in 3-AZ Stretch Cluster	Kamoltat Sirivadhna IBM
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Snack Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	🎤 Implementing Ceph at GMU's College of Engineering and Computing	Dan O'Brien George Mason University
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	🎤 Crushing It	Tyler Brekke Digital Ocean
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	🎤 Closer than you think: Ceph's journey to nearest neighbor search	Kyle Bader IBM
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Networking reception
5:30 PM	Event Close

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