IBM Storage Ceph

The enterprise storage solution that grows with your business—No lock-in, no limits

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Overview

Highly scalable, reliable, and agile unified storage

IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise-grade software-defined storage solution with a three-in-one architecture that unifies block, file, and object data in a single highly scalable and resilient distributed solution that simplifies your infrastructure stack. Prices starting at USD 0.026 GB/month*

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Features

Flexible.Secure.Supported. 

Extreme flexibility

Access multiprotocol support that adapts to your storage needs across architectures, workloads and integrations.

 Full-stack security

Enable enterprise-grade infrastructure security, data integrity and regulatory compliance.

 Consistently available support

Get round-the-clock access to IBM’s technical experts, proactive monitoring and automated issue prevention.

 On-demand scaling

Start small, expand rapidly and adapt to business needs without disruption.

Use cases

Ready to scale.

Object storage as-a-service

IBM Storage Ceph provides S3-compatible on-premise Object storage with high fidelity to AWS services like IAM, SSE, and Object Lock. It supports replication across multiple locations, including public clouds.
AI/ML and Data Lakes

An ideal storage platform for AI/ML/Analytics workloads, offering unified object, file, and block storage. Replace Hadoop HDFS with S3A and IBM Storage Ceph for snapshots, clones, and total freedom of choice.
Storage for VMware

By using NVMe over TCP, to access Ceph block storage by non-Linux hosts, in example, VMware. Also suitable for other workloads that require block storage backend can use Ceph RBD natively or through NVMe/TCP.
Platform storage for Kubernetes and OpenStack

IBM Storage Ceph provides Kubernetes storage via the Container Storage Interface (CSI) API for standard, non-Red Hat environments. It shines brightest in OpenStack, meeting all of its complex storage demands.

How do I get it?

Select the Storage Ceph deployment option that best suits your IT strategy and business needs.
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Software only
A highly customizable and scalable way to leverage new or existing infrastructure for managing block, file, and object data at scale, fine-tuning your systems to meet specific workload requirements.
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Ceph-certified servers
A simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to deploy storage on purpose-built servers that have been optimized, tested, and certified to accelerate the deployment of IBM Storage Ceph.
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As a managed service
The flexibility and simplicity of cloud storage in your data center. Simplify and expedite the deployment of Storage Ceph clusters for faster time-to-value, allowing your IT team to focus on managing apps, not infrastructure.
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Data intelligence platform
IBM Fusion unlocks value from structured and unstructured data across any environment with natural-language search, real-time analytics, and automated indexing, helping organizations accelerate insights and optimize data-intensive workloads.

Resources

Resources

Discover the IBM Storage Ceph as a service experience
IBM Storage Ceph solutions guide
Introducing IBM Storage Ceph as a service
IBM Storage Ceph concepts and architecture guide
IBM Storage Ceph as a data lakehouse solution
Next-gen object storage for modern applications
Modern data lakehouses with IBM Storage Ceph
Footnotes

*Based on the listed price for the IBM Storage Ceph as a Service standard configurations.