Ceph
Ceph is a highly scalable, open-source, software-defined storage platform designed for petabyte-scale data storage. It provides object, block, and file storage interfaces from a single distributed cluster, offering high performance, reliability, and fault tolerance on commodity hardware.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2004
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Ceph was created to address the limitations of traditional network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) solutions, which struggled with scalability, vendor lock-in, and the high cost of managing massive, growing datasets. It aimed to provide a unified, open-source, infinitely scalable, and fault-tolerant storage solution capable of handling diverse workloads (object, block, and file) with automated data distribution and self-healing capabilities.
- Platforms
- Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), Container environments (Docker, Podman)
Related technologies
Notable users
- European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
- SAP
- Bloomberg
- T-Mobile
- Deutsche Telekom (Open Telekom Cloud)
- CERN
- DigitalOcean
- China Mobile
- OVHcloud