Webinar Overview
ZFS and Ceph both deliver reliable storage, but they solve different problems. Ceph distributes data across many nodes (scale-out) while ZFS manages it inside a single system (scale-up). That one architectural difference drives all other metrics: latency, throughput, failure and recovery behavior, how you add capacity, and how much operational effort each demands.
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't.
We’ll also discuss the case for OSDs on ZFS, what you gain from checksums, snapshots, and replication, against what you pay in duplicated work between ZFS and Ceph, and whether that trade is worth making.
What we'll cover:
- ZFS and Ceph architecture
- Scale-up vs. scale-out storage
- Performance and latency considerations
- Redundancy and failure recovery
- Hardware and networking requirements
- When to choose ZFS vs Ceph, or combine the two
Date: October 15, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM EDT
Duration: 50 minutes.
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Meet the Panellists
Co-founder and Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A core ZFS developer, FreeBSD contributor, and co-author of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, Allan is a community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through. He enjoys spending his time improving ZFS, advancing FreeBSD, and making open source code better.
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Dr. Dan van der Ster is the CTO at CLYSO with over two decades of experience in distributed infrastructure. Holding a PhD from the University of Victoria, he spent 15 years in CERN's IT Grid and Storage Group, building the computing and storage infrastructure behind the landmark discovery of the Higgs Boson particle. As a member of the Ceph Executive Council leading the open-source project, Dan specializes in enterprise storage and scalable private cloud and supercomputing infrastructures.