IBM Storage Ceph

Formerly Red Hat Ceph Storage

Large scale data storage: Red Hat Ceph Storage is designed to be highly scalable and can handle large amounts of data. It's well suited for organizations that need to store and manage large amounts of data, such as backups, images, videos, and other types of multimedia content.Cloud-based deployments: Red Hat Ceph Storage can provide object storage services for cloud-based applications such as SaaS and PaaS offerings. It is well suited for organizations that are looking to build their own cloud storage infrastructure or to use it as a storage backend for their cloud-based applications.High-performance computing: Red Hat Ceph Storage can be used to provide storage for high-performance computing (HPC) applications, such as scientific simulations and other types of compute-intensive workloads. It's well suited for organizations that need to store

Well suited for large-scale private data centers & almost all the places where mission-critical data is handled like -

• Enterprise
• Telcos
• Healthcare
• Banking
• IT, etc

This is because ceph provides you data management capabilities without 3rd party storage vendors

Less appropriate for POCs & lab environments because of initial setup complexities

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a good solution if you have a need to store large amount of unstructured data and have a need to protect it with authorization. If you have a need to search for specific data in Red Hat Ceph Storage you often need to combine it with a relational database or search index like Elastic search. It’s hard to justify Red Hat Ceph Storage usage if you only need to handle limited amount of data.

I believe in storage packages offered by this product and totally recommend it. The installation process of this tool is easy and customization to different clusters is flexible. The cost of purchasing depends on the purpose of the consumer and no further additional maintenance cost after purchasing. It is suitable for storing large volumes of data with powerful integrated data protection tools.

Red Hat Ceph Storage is very well suited for providing fast and scalable object storage and storage for virtualization hosts. One of the main advantages is that Ceph allows horizontal scaling by adding more and more nodes within hours. A scenario where using Ceph is less appropriate is when one needs a distributed, POSIX-compliant filesystem. While CephFS is considered as production ready, there are other better solutions in many cases.

It is absolutely, hands down the best storage solution for Open Stack. I would even argue it is the only solution if a company is operating at petabyte scale and need resiliency. The storage solution allows any organization to scale their environment using commodity hardware from top to bottom. It has a battle tested track record where it is even being used as the data storage back end for the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.