Red Hat is pleased to announce that Sage Weil, Red Hat software architect and creator of Ceph software-defined storage software, will deliver a keynote speech at The Vault Conference on Thursday, March 12. Sage's talk, "Open source vs. open standards," will discuss why open source software is the key technology driver in the next revolution of data storage.

To be held this week in Boston and sponsored by The Linux Foundation, The Vault conference will bring together the leading developers in file systems and storage in the Linux kernel with related projects in the open source community.

To find out more about Red Hat's open software-defined storage portfolio and its contributions to the Ceph and Gluster storage open source communities, visit the Red Hat booth in the technology showcase. And, be sure to join us for keynotes and conference sessions led by Red Hat engineers and architects. For more information about Red Hat Storage, visit http:www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage.