The Ceph Community: from meetups to reference architectures

• Dan Ferber
  Dan Ferber works in Intel’s Datacenter Solutions Team and is on the Ceph Advisory Board. He is involved with a number of Ceph projects including Ceph reference architectures, Ceph performance testing, Intel’s Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) for Ceph, and supporting Intel partners in their Ceph solutions efforts.
• Patrick McGarry
  Patrick McGarry is currently incarnated as Director of Ceph Community at Red Hat, is the chair of the Ceph Advisory Board, and is working to spread the Ceph gospel. An experienced community manager, gamer, mischief maker, and all-around geek, Patrick spent five years writing and managing Slashdot under the nomme du keyboard 'scuttlemonkey'.