The Open Source Engine: CLYSO & Ceph in Cloud Native

As cloud-native workloads grow in scale and complexity, the demand for robust, highly adaptable, and vendor-agnostic storage has never been higher. In this talk, we will explore how CLYSO Enterprise Storage leverages the proven foundation of open-source Ceph to deliver a flexible, petabyte-scale data platform for mission-critical Kubernetes environments. Join us to discover how enterprise engineering is breaking vendor lock-in, ensuring resilience, and future-proofing the modern data lifecycle. In this presentation from Cloud Native Vancouver, Dan Van der ster the CTO of Clyso, takes us on a fascinating journey from the depths of particle physics to the cutting edge of cloud-native storage. Dan shares his 15-year experience working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, managing the mind-boggling amounts of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Discover how the search for the Higgs Boson (the "God Particle") pushed the absolute limits of distributed computing, requiring hundreds of petabytes of data, and how these massive scaling challenges directly shaped modern cloud-native storage solutions like Ceph and Rook. 📌 What You'll Learn: The Scale of CERN: Get a look inside the world’s largest machine, a 27 km particle accelerator buried 100 meters underground. The Higgs Boson Data Problem: Learn how a single "bump" on a physics plot required tens to hundreds of petabytes of data per year. Inside a Mega Data Center: A peak into CERN’s massive multi-floor data infrastructure and how it handles extreme data processing. The Roots of Modern Storage: How working on Grid computing in 2008 paved the way for the open-source cloud and storage technologies we use today. ⏱️ Timestamps / Video Chapters 00:00 - Introduction & Welcome to Cloud Native Vancouver 00:21 - Gauging the Audience: Who has heard of Ceph & Rook? 00:36 - About Dan & Clyso (15 Years of Open-Source Cloud IT) 01:01 - Demystifying the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN 02:47 - What does particle acceleration have to do with Cloud Native? 02:51 - Meet "Atlas": The Building-Sized Digital Camera 03:47 - Dan’s Journey: From a Distributed Computing PhD to CERN 04:18 - The Discovery of the Higgs Boson (The God Particle) 04:52 - The Massive Scale of Storage: Hundreds of Petabytes Per Year 05:32 - Inside the CERN Data Center & The Shift to Storage Architecture #cloudnative #CERN #ceph #rook #kubernetes #cloudstorage #bigdata #datascience #lhc