Ceph
Ceph stands out from the storage solution crowd by virtue of its feature set. It has been designed to overcome the limitations of existing storage systems, and effectively replaces old and expensive proprietary solutions. Ceph is economical by being open source and software-defined and by running on most any commodity hardware. Clients enjoy the flexibility of Ceph's variety of client access modalities with a single backend.
Every Ceph component is reliable and supports high availability and scaling. A properly configured Ceph cluster is free from single points of failure and accepts an arbitrary mix of file types and sizes without performance penalties.
Ceph by virtue of being distributed does not follow the traditional centralized ...
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