CEPH as much data and you ' ve been through three different hardware revisions all from different vendors , you ' ve had to migrate data , change policy , and now you ' re storing a different type of data than you were before - it ' s all a total mess ,” Weil laughs . “ Often , your net system is going to be a mixture of all sorts of different stuff , and open source lends itself to solving those problems really well because you have the neutrality to be flexible and adaptable . If you ' re buying a proprietary solution from a particular vendor , you ' re going to have to buy more of the X solution that they allow you to interoperate with . You ' re locked into a particular path .” Ceph , he adds , not only frees organisations from those restrictive , vendor-defined upgrade paths , but opens up a huge , mature ecosystem of enterprises and community members to its user base .
Harnessing the Ceph community When it comes to harnessing the true value of Ceph , its commercial ecosystem and user community are pivotal . From companies like Red Hat that deliver Ceph solutions to Fortune 500 companies , to SoftIron which simplifies the Ceph adoption process through curated , in-house designed
RED HAT - CEPH AT PETABYTE SCALE
Kyle Bader , Red Hat ’ s Data Foundation
Architect , comes from an operations background . As such , he ’ s no stranger to the headaches that can accompany endeavours to be flexible in a large IT environment . “ If you have a handful of proprietary appliances , that ' s probably fine and quite manageable , but at Red Hat we have several customers that are managing north of a hundred petabytes of data ,” he explains . The growth in the amount of data being stored and managed , he continues , “ is not stopping by any means . So , it becomes challenging once you get to larger scales .”
Red Hat ’ s business brings the power of open source ecosystems to large scale enterprises , leveraging everything from OpenShift to Kubernetes in order to take its customers ’ IT infrastructure to the next level . Engineered for data analytics , artificial intelligence and machine learning , Red Hat ’ s Ceph Storage delivers software-defined storage on industry-standard hardware to organisations at any scale .
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