Ceph Unified Storage

Overview

Ceph is gaining popularity because it is unique and the only storage solution that delivers four critical capabilities:

open-source: it equates to lower cost and no vendor lock in from either a software or hardware perspective.
software-defined, scale out architecture: provides deployment flexibility and can be deployed on standard HW server configurations, which equates to lower cost.
enterprise-class: includes features that are required to deploy and store enterprise workloads, including data availability and data protection and recovery.
unified storage (object, block, file). Provides flexibility and simplified management.