Red Hat Opens Ceph Storage to Other Cloud Leaders and Establishes a Ceph Advisory Board

Red Hat's Ceph, a popular open‑source software‑defined object and file storage suite, has historically been steered by Red Hat, but at the Tokyo OpenStack Summit the company declared that strategic direction will now be overseen by the newly created Ceph Advisory Board .

The board's purpose, as stated, is to work with the broader community and user committees to expand and strengthen participation and collaboration within the Ceph project.

Members of the advisory board include representatives from Canonical, CERN, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel, SanDisk, SUSE and other companies, meaning Ceph will no longer be a Red Hat‑only effort.

Ceph’s ability to provide object, block, and file storage within a single, unified storage cluster makes it a natural fit for cloud storage infrastructure; according to the latest OpenStack Foundation user survey, Ceph is the most widely used block storage solution in OpenStack.

Tim Burke, VP of Infrastructure Engineering Development at Red Hat, said that formalizing the advisory board formalizes the open collaboration that has driven Ceph’s success and will help deliver new features and improve integration for diverse workloads.

“Red Hat’s key strength has always been collaborating with the community to achieve results no single company could accomplish alone… The Ceph Advisory Board formalizes this open relationship, and we look forward to working with the community and partners to bring new functionality and ease of use to Ceph.”

Canonical’s Storage & Hyperscale VP, Christian Reis, praised Canonical’s long‑standing contribution to Ceph and expressed excitement about helping the advisory board broaden decision‑making sources, expand adoption, and mature Ceph into an enterprise‑grade storage platform.

Lars Marowsky‑Brée, a distinguished engineer at SUSE, described the advisory board as a crucial step for Ceph to evolve from an open‑source project to an open standard adopted across the industry, contributing to the software‑defined storage revolution.

Prior to this development, the Ceph code repository experienced an attack, which Red Hat officials said was unrelated to the creation of the advisory board.

Original article: “Red Hat opens up Ceph storage to other cloud leaders” (translated and proofread by colleagues).