Ceph is the industry’s most mature and proven software-defined storage platform, and Platina Systems makes it easy to use.
Platina Command Center automates day-to-day infrastructure and storage operations, enabling organizations to quickly and simply deploy Ceph in a private or hybrid cloud. This powerful combination delivers the flexibility, durability and cost control they need to store and manage their valuable data at limitless scale.
“Ceph is the best choice for scale-out storage, and Platina takes it from an open source project known for its complexity into something we can actually consume,” said Ken Choi, CEO of Conscious Data Centers. “With their out-of-the-box experience, we had it up and running in minutes — no reading a manual for weeks before we could get started.”
What Is Ceph?
Ceph is an open source data storage platform that aims to provide completely distributed operations, hosted on-premises, without a single point of failure. It provides file, block and object storage all in one unified software stack.
Ceph’s scalability and stability have made it a favorite among users across a broad range of industries, and it’s highly compatible with Kubernetes, OpenStack, libvirt and KVM, making it an excellent solution for companies requiring resilience and flexibility at petabyte scale.
Ceph runs on commodity server and networking hardware, and clusters are composed of multiple software components, including monitors, managers, object storage daemons and metadata servers. Together, these components are responsible for exposing the file, block and object targets, replicating data across storage devices and processing metadata.
Sound complex? It can be. That’s where Platina comes in.
Benefits of Ceph on Platina
Platina Command Center natively handles Ceph configuration and maintenance, further simplifying the deployment and operations of petabyte-scale storage. And it provides advanced features, such as asynchronous replication, which enables enterprises to seamlessly configure cluster-to-cluster Ceph replication for active/active and disaster recovery use cases. This reduces the manual work typically required in these scenarios and also improves data reliability, fault tolerance and accessibility.
By using Ceph on Platina, organizations large and small can secure their critical data or IT infrastructure in a self-healing, self-managing system without prohibitive costs. Doing so can greatly reduce administration time and free up other resources.
To learn how Platina can help you easily deploy and manage Ceph, request a demo at https://www.platinasystems.com/contact.
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