Ceph, the cephalopod of data storage

If your company no longer knows what to do with so much data, you need Ceph.

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Cephalopods are the largest and most intelligent invertebrates. They have well-developed senses and large brains, and they are the most complex among invertebrates—all brains and tentacles!

Ceph is a unified, scalable, distributed open-source storage platform offering object, block, and file storage on a single cluster. This storage uses software, allowing organizations to modernize their infrastructure and reduce costs with a flexible and adaptable solution.

If you’re building vector databases, AI pipelines, or managing unstructured data at scale, delivery, or exabyte-scale workloads, this article might help you rethink your storage layer.

1 exabyte = 1,000 petabytes (PB)

1 exabyte = 1,000,000 terabytes (TB)

Summary for the impatient.

• MinIO is fast, simple, and no longer truly open source in production.
• Ceph is complex but mature, fully open source, and multipurpose.
• If you’re running >0TB and concerned about potential S3…