IBM Storage Ceph

IBM Storage Ceph is an IBM-supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system. It is part of the IBM Storage portfolio of software-defined storage.

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

Engineered to be self-healing and self-managing with no single point of failure and includes storage analytics for critical insights into growing amounts of data. IBM Storage Ceph can be used as an easy and efficient way to build a data lakehouse for IBM watsonx.data and for next-generation AI workloads.

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IBM Storage Ready Nodes

Optimize and simplify software storage flexibility with cloud scale infrastructure support and integration.

Benefits

Increase scalability

Grow from as small as three nodes to thousands of nodes non-disruptively to be able to address billions of pieces of information.

Manage costs

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

Unify storage

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

Use and store data efficiently

Make use of data reduction capabilities for disk usage optimization, partial or complete reads/writes with atomic transactions, replication and erasure coding for data protection, policy-based optimization, and much more.

Features

Automatic workload redistribution

Designed to be self-healing and self-managing, it rebalances data distribution throughout the cluster and handles failures without interruption, automatically recovering to the desired predefined data resiliency level.

Rebalancing and recovery

Capacity planning

Storage analytics helps to monitor capacity utilization and growth that enables customers to plan for future requirements and determine near-term capacity needs.

Configuring storage capacity

Data protection

Provides security features like Object lock for write-once-read many (WORM) data governance and protection; FIPS 140-2 cryptography; key management integration and server-side encryption.

Object lock operations

Enable object lock

Resources

Use cases for IBM Storage Ceph

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

IBM Storage Ceph 30 minute installation challenge

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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