IBM® Storage Ceph® is a software-defined storage platform that consolidates block, file and object storage to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while retaining the cost benefits and data sovereignty advantages of on-premises IT.
Storage Ceph runs on industry-standard x86 hardware, providing an easy and efficient way to build a data lakehouse for IBM® watsonx.data™ and next-generation AI workloads. It's also massively scalable—engineered with no single point of failure and able to support petabytes of data and tens of billions of objects.
To realize the benefits of an on-premises hybrid cloud strategy, organizations are working to bridge the architectural divide between IT Ops and DevOps. Traditional enterprise apps previously relied on block storage systems running in on-premises data centers. Now, they must work seamlessly with web-scale apps in bare metal and containerized environments connecting to the cloud by platform as a service. Storage Ceph is designed to bridge these different infrastructures, application architectures, and various management and consumption experiences.
Data stored in Storage Ceph can be accessed by block protocols (for structured data) and by AWS S3 compatible REST APIs (for unstructured data). This makes Storage Ceph ideal for both application storage and as back-end storage for data lakehouses. Storage Ceph also supports NVMe/TCP, which makes it a competitive alternative in many virtualized environments.
Optimize and simplify software storage flexibility with cloud scale infrastructure support and integration.
Designed to be self-healing and self-managing, Storage Ceph rebalances data distribution throughout the cluster and handles failures without interruption, automatically recovering to the desired predefined data resiliency level.
Monitor capacity utilization and growth with storage analytics that enable customers to plan for future requirements and determine near-term capacity needs.
Access security features such as object lock for write-once-read-many (WORM) data governance and protection; FIPS 140-2 cryptography; key management integration and server-side encryption.
Optimize the enterprise with flexibility and accelerate your cloud native data modernization.
Watch the video to see how easy it is to install and configure an IBM Storage Ceph cluster on commodity x86 hardware servers.
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