I told a little story about Ceph today in the sysadmin miniconf at linux.conf.au 2016. Simon and Ewen have already put a copy of my slides up on the miniconf web site, but for bonus posterity you can get them from here also. For some more detail, check out Lars’ SUSE Enterprise Storage – Design and Performance for Ceph slides from SUSECon 2015 and Software-defined Storage: Sizing and Performance.
Update (2016-02-07): The video of the talk can be found here.