IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise-grade distributed, universal, software-defined storage solution proven at scale. IBM Storage Ceph’s ideal use case is large file archive and object store with easy on-the-fly scalability and good resiliency. Compared to GPFS/Storage Scale, extending a Ceph cluster is typically easier. IBM Storage Ceph provides a single, efficient, unified storage platform for object, block and file storage, which allows flexible scale-out architecture on clustered x86 industry-standard hardware.

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 support AI with enterprise resiliency and consolidate data with software simplicity and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs.