Happy Monday, Ceph Friends! The Call for Proposals is now open for Ceph Days London 2026! 🎡💂🏼♂️🇬🇧 Do you have a story to share? We’re looking for talks on topics like: - Ceph operations, management, and development - New and proposed Ceph features, development status - Ceph development roadmap - Best practices - Ceph use-cases, solution architectures, and user experiences - Ceph performance and optimization - Platform Integrations - Kubernetes, OpenShift - OpenStack (Cinder, Manila, etc.) - Spark - Multi-site and multi-cluster data services - Persistent memory, ZNS SSDs, SMR HDDs, DPUs, and other new hardware technologies - Storage management, monitoring, and deployment automation - Experiences deploying and operating Ceph in production and/or at scale - Small-scale or edge deployments - Long-term, archival storage - Data compression, deduplication, and storage optimization - Developer processes, tools, challenges - Ceph testing infrastructure, tools - Ceph community issues, outreach, and project governance - Ceph documentation, training, and learner experience We want to hear from you, whether you run Ceph in production or are building the next generation of storage innovation. *Submit your talk by April 24 here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJaOGyO0FfD9MNyCwoFdj3MzBKbRcQJZee... <https://lnkd.in/gca8mJu6>* Best, -- Anthony Middleton Community Manager, Ceph Foundation amiddleton@linuxfoundation.org LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceph>| BlueSky <https://bsky.app/profile/ceph.io> | Twitter <https://x.com/Ceph>