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IBM Storage Ceph
Consolidate block, file, and object data on-premises with an enterprise storage platform that delivers a cloud-native experience.
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IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while helping reduce costs and provisioning times.​

IT Leaders are shifting from a traditional storage approach towards integrated enterprise storage platforms that can handle diverse modern workloads seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid environments to simplify IT operations, reduce costs and adapt to new and changing requirements.​

IBM Storage Ceph is the only enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data protocols within a single software-defined solution that can support most enterprise operational workloads to help reduce long-term costs of operating dedicated storage systems, delivering a cloud-like experience on-premises.​

Storage Ceph runs on industry-standard x86 hardware, providing an easy and efficient way to modernize data lakes or virtual machines storage. It also has a modular design that can scale up and down without disruption, and intelligent security for automated protection and recovery from threats. Storage Ceph has a unified control plane based on REST APIs to fully automate management tasks and can be deployed on a variety of platforms to best suit your operational needs, including bare metal and containers.​

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Benefits Multi-protocol storage

Use a single platform that supports block, file and object storage combined to manage all your data, lowering costs significantly and helping customers handle exponential data growth.

Modular scalability

Grow from as little as 4 nodes to thousands of nodes non-disruptively to address billions of pieces of information.

Manage costs

Use software-defined storage built with open standards that keeps CAPEX and OPEX costs in line with underlying commodity hardware prices.

Features Intelligent security

Advanced analytics and automation for protection, detection, and recovery from threats.

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Uniform control

Common unified control plane with standard APIs.

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API-driven

REST APIs to fully automate management tasks and support integration with other IT and business systems.

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Deployment options

IBM Storage Ceph can be deployed on a variety of platforms to best suit your operational needs.

Software only

A highly customizable and scalable way to leverage new or existing infrastructure, including commodity x86 hardware, for managing block, file, and object data at scale, fine-tuning your systems to meet specific workload requirements.

Storage Ceph Ready Nodes

Building-block infrastructure to accelerate the deployment of software-defined storage. A simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to deploy storage on purpose-built servers that have been carefully optimized, tested, and certified to work with IBM Storage Ceph.

Resources Use cases for IBM Storage Ceph

Optimize the enterprise with flexibility and accelerate your cloud native data modernization.

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Why transition to enterprise storage platforms now?

Stop buying storage, embrace platforms instead. Eliminate IT operations overhead by leveraging platform-native capabilities that use advanced, AI-enabled IT operations to improve productivity and efficiency.

IBM Storage Ceph solutions guide

Engineered to be self-healing and self-managing with no single point of failure, IBM Storage Ceph includes storage analytics for critical insights into growing amounts of data.

IBM Storage Ceph concepts and architecture guide

IBM Storage Ceph is designed to infuse AI with enterprise resiliency, consolidate data with software simplicity, and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs.

IBM Storage Ceph as a Data Lakehouse Platform

IBM watsonx.data and IBM Storage Ceph can be a powerful combination for building a scalable and cost-effective data lakehouse solution.

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