<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hey all,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Does anyone have a topic for this month? If nobody has anything in mind, I’ve got a topic called “Scale-Out Filesystems: Life Beyond Proprietary Storage” that goes into Ceph, GlusterFS and Lustre as alternatives to expensive enterprise SAN/NAS products and dovetails nicely with Matt’s most recent HPC project. ;)</div><div class="bloop_sign" id="bloop_sign_1428334887918118912"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Jeff Goldschrafe<br></div></div></body></html>