Ceph: Designing and Implementing Scalable Storage Systems
by Michael Hackett, Vikhyat Umrao, Karan Singh, Nick Fisk
Introduction
Ceph is currently the hottest software-defined storage (SDS) technology and is shaking up the entire storage industry. It is an open source project that provides unified software-defined solutions for block, file, and object storage. The core idea of Ceph is to provide a distributed storage system that is massively scalable and high performing with no single point of failure. From the roots, it has been designed to be highly scalable (up to the exabyte level and beyond) while running on general-purpose commodity hardware.
Ceph is acquiring most of the traction in the storage industry due to its open, scalable, and reliable nature. This is the era of cloud computing and software-defined infrastructure, where we need a storage ...
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