Steve has worked in the enterprise software and storage industry for 20 years holding engineering leadership roles at companies including Citrix Systems, Symantec and Veritas. Steve holds over twenty patents in the areas of storage systems technology, SDS, and cloud computing.

Anthony has been deploying and maintaining large scale Ceph clusters for service providers since the early days of Ceph. He’s a top Ceph expert and author of multiple books including Learning Ceph, and Ceph: Designing and Implementing Scalable Storage Systems.

Dan is CTO for CLYSO, developing and supporting solutions with Ceph, open infrastructure, and cloud native products and services. Dan contributes to the open source Ceph Foundation and community as Executive Council Member since 2021 and Board Member since 2015. Previously Dan was Chief IT Architect at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) and introduced and managed Ceph there between 2013 to 2022.

Alex has 30 years of experience in Enterprise IT and has done Ceph in production for 12 years.