45Drives Sponsors Cephalocon 2025 as Technical Director Brett Kelly to Keynote on Ceph's High-Performance Future

45Drives, a global leader in open-source storage hardware and enterprise data infrastructure solutions, has been announced as a Platinum Sponsor 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 designed specifically to optimize enterprise Ceph deployments, including the NVMe Stornado F16, the Storinator Hybrid, and its newest Ceph gateway server hardware.

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 presented by competing technologies such as OpenZFS and emerging parallel file systems that are rapidly evolving with greater scalability and performance capabilities.

Kelly's keynote will emphasize that while Ceph remains a resilient and industry-leading platform, its continued dominance depends on fully embracing the latest advancements in storage hardware. The presentation will highlight how innovations such as Seagate's HAMR 30TB HDDs and next-generation NVMe architectures like 45Drives' Stornado F16 are pushing storage infrastructure into a new age of ultra-high capacity, low latency, and extreme throughput. These technological advancements represent a significant shift in what's possible for enterprise storage solutions and distributed systems.

Dr. Doug Milburn, President and Co-Founder of 45Drives, commented on the company's perspective, stating, "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. At 45Drives, we're proud to play our part in helping Ceph scale to the future of data."

The company's presence at Cephalocon 2025 underscores its deep commitment to open-source collaboration and its role as a driving force behind accessible, high-performance storage infrastructure. Visitors to the 45Drives booth will experience hands-on demonstrations of the company's latest Ceph-optimized systems, meet directly with technical experts, and explore solutions designed to meet the storage demands of modern data-intensive environments. For additional information about the company's products and services, visit https://www.45drives.com.

Cephalocon serves as the official global conference for the Ceph storage community, bringing together developers, users, and contributors from across the open-source ecosystem to discuss the future of distributed storage, data management, and scalable infrastructure solutions. 45Drives' platinum-level sponsorship and technical leadership participation highlight the company's strategic investment in shaping the future direction of open-source storage technologies that power enterprise data centers, research institutions, and government organizations worldwide.