Reserve your spot for the webinar today!
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT (9:00 AM CDT)
Speaker: Daniel Parkes, IBM Storage Ceph Technical PM – IBM
Register here – (link: https://ibm.biz/BdGLVx)
Introduction
Object storage is no longer just a cost-effective way to store large amounts of unstructured data—it has become the backbone of modern applications. Whether it’s big data analytics, AI/ML model training, cloud-native development, or scalable databases, object storage is powering the next generation of workloads.
From vector databases to streaming platforms, pushed by their developers, an increasing number of organizations are leveraging object storage not just as a place to store files but as an active component of their architecture. The shift toward open data formats in the Analytics space, such as Apache Iceberg, has further reinforced the need for intelligent, high-performance, scalable object storage that seamlessly integrates with modern data platforms.
Object storage is rapidly gaining ground, even in AI/ML workloads, where high-performance parallel file systems have long been the standard. As AI models become complex, requiring massive datasets and frequent checkpointing, organizations are turning to object storage’s infinite scalability, cost efficiency, and rich metadata capabilities. The ability to efficiently store, retrieve, and manage AI training data, model checkpoints, and inference outputs—without the rigid constraints of traditional file systems—has made object storage an increasingly attractive option.
What You’ll Learn in This Webinar
This webinar will explore the importance of object storage in today’s IT landscape and how IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 meets these evolving needs. We will start by discussing the core advantages of Ceph object storage, including its:
- Limitless scalability to handle ever-growing datasets
- Robust performance for AI, analytics, HPC, IoT, and containerized workloads
- Flexibility to support self-managed Ceph or IBM fully managed deployments with Ceph as a Service
Key Enhancements in IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 Object Storage
We will also examine the exciting new features introduced in IBM Storage Ceph 8.0, including:
A Look into the Future
Additionally, we will discuss how Ceph object storage can be the foundation for on-prem iceberg tables, integrating with state-of-the-art catalogs such as Polaris and providing table-level security at the data layer. Thanks to the functionality of external tables, these on-prem iceberg tables can be transparently connected to data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.
Finally, we will provide a glimpse into the future of IBM Storage Ceph, outlining our vision and roadmap for ongoing innovation in areas like ML checkpoint acceleration with PyTorch extensions, Vector-enhanced Search through intelligent caching and serverless indexing, Lakehouse optimized Read APIs, etc.
Register & Get started now!
Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2025 11:00 AM EDT (9:00 AM CST)
If you have registered and the description has whetted your appetite to get started, I will leave you with a list of blog posts that will give you a good introduction to each of the new features we will cover in the upcoming webinar.
📌 IBM Storage Ceph 8.0: Enhancing Object Storage Logging for End Users with the S3 Bucket Logging API
📌 Simplifying IBM Storage Ceph Object Deployments. Production-Ready Ceph Object Gateway with New Cephadm Features
📌 IBM Storage Ceph Object Storage Tiering Enhancements: Archive and Retrieval policy
📌 IBM Storage Ceph 8.0: Enhancing IBM Storage Ceph Multitenancy with IAM Accounts
📌 IBM Storage Ceph Object Integration with IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager
📌 IBM Storage Ceph Object Integration with Snowflake via external tables
📌 IBM Storage Ceph Object 8.0: Multisite Asynchronous Replication Blog Series
Reserve your spot for the webinar today!
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT (9:00 AM CST)
Speaker: Daniel Parkes, IBM Storage Ceph Technical PM – IBM
Register here – (link: https://ibm.biz/BdGLVx)