Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 Deliver Simplified, Petabyte-Scale Object Storage for Cloud-Native Development, and Data Analytics

Red Hat, Inc. announced Ceph Storage 4 to deliver simplified, petabyte-scale object storage for cloud-native development and data analytics.

Ceph Storage 4 is based on the Nautilus version of the Ceph open source project.

With enhanced scalability and new, simplified operational features, it helps enable organizations across industries, such as financial services, government, automotive and telecommunications, to better support application development, data analytics, AI, ML, and other emerging workload capabilities.

Scalability for modern data workloads
Enabling organizations to deploy petabyte-scale Amazon Simplified Storage Service (S3) compatible object storage, Ceph Storage delivers performance at scale while maintaining cloud economics. In recent internal testing of its enhanced performance capabilities, the latest version of Ceph Storage delivered over a 2x performance boost for write intensive workloads, making it better-suited to fulfill the performance needs of today’s data-intensive applications.

As data workloads add stress and complexity to storage infrastructure, it’s critical to automate housekeeping tasks to enable greater scale. With increased automation of data management and data placement activities, Ceph Storage 4 helps infrastructure teams evolve from storage-centric to service-centric operational models, to serve a larger cross-section of applications and stakeholders. Self-managing and self-healing capabilities available with Ceph Storage 4 around automated backup, recovery, and provisioning, enhance scale and also BC for enterprises looking to offer ‘always on’ SLAs.

Simplified operations with enhanced observability and automation
Ceph Storage 4 is optimized for organizations’ need to store and manage the rapidly growing volumes of data being generated by emerging workloads, without requiring additional operations staff to do so.

For IT operations teams looking for a simplified and intuitive operational experience, Ceph Storage 4 includes several features:

• Simplified installer experience, which enables standard installations that can be performed in less than ten minutes (see Video).

• Management dashboard for a unified, ‘heads up’ view of operations at all times, helping teams to identify and resolve problems more quickly.

• QoS monitoring feature, which helps verify storage QoS for applications in a multi-tenant hosted cloud environment.

• Integrated bucket notifications to support Kubernetes-native serverless architectures, which enable automated data pipelines.

Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 is available.

Sarangan Rangachari, VP and GM, storage, Red Hat, said: “Scalability is imperative to our customers as they seek a competitive advantage with their vast volumes of data. However, the power of scale is lost if performance capabilities can’t match it. Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 raises the bar on object storage scalability, performance, and simplicity, enabling our customers to grow their businesses and operating efficiency.“

Amita Potnis, research director, infrastructure systems, IDC, said: “The massive growth of data and emerging workloads are challenges faced by many organizations. Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 can enable businesses to efficiently scale and support ever-growing data and workload requirements, while providing simplified installation and management.“

Resources:
What’s new in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 
Red Hat Ceph Storage     
Ceph Storage Performance Whitepaper     
Blog: Red Hat Ceph Storage Performance Series