Michael Hackett is a storage and SAN expert in customer support. He has been working on Ceph and storage-related products for over 12 years. Michael is currently working at Red Hat, based in Massachusetts, where he is a principal software maintenance engineer for Red Hat Ceph and the technical product lead for the global Ceph team.Vikhyat Umrao has been working on software-defined storage technology, with specific expertise in Ceph Unified Storage. He has been working on Ceph for over 3 years now and in his current position at Red Hat, he focuses on the support and development of Ceph to solve Red Hat Ceph storage customer issues and upstream reported issues.Karan Singh is a certified professional for technologies like OpenStack, NetApp and Oracle Solaris. He is currently working as a System Specialist of Storage and Cloud Platform for CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd, focusing all his energies on providing IaaS cloud solutions based on OpenStack and Ceph and building economic multi-petabyte storage system using Ceph.Nick Fisk is an IT specialist with a strong history in enterprise storage. Throughout his career, he worked in a variety of roles and mastered several technologies. Over the years, he has deployed several clusters. He spends time in the Ceph community, helping others and improving certain areas of Ceph.Anthony D'Atri's career in system administration spans from laptops to vector supercomputers. He has brought his passion for fleet management and server components to bear on a holistic yet, detailed approach to deployment and operations. Anthony worked for three years at Cisco using Ceph as a petabyte-scale object and block backend to multiple OpenStack clouds.Vaibhav Bhembre is a systems programmer working currently as a technical lead for cloud storage products at DigitalOcean. From helping to scale dynamically generated campaign sends to over million users at a time, to architecting a cloud-scale compute and storage platform, Vaibhav has years of experience writing software across all layers of the stack.