This document summarizes Patrick McGarry's presentation on Ceph and its role in the ecosystem. The presentation covered Ceph's involvement in various Linux distributions, open source projects, orchestration tools, cloud platforms, and upcoming Ceph Days sessions. It highlighted how Ceph provides storage solutions for projects like OpenStack, CloudStack, XenServer, and Hadoop. It also discussed tools for deploying and managing Ceph clusters, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Juju, and ceph-deploy.