Red Hat Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that delivers unified storage for your cloud environment. With block, object, and file storage combined in 1 platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage does the work of efficiently and automatically managing all your data—to petabytes and beyond—so you can focus on running your business.

Modern workloads need storage services that react automatically to changing hardware and network conditions. Built on open source software with flexible, open interfaces, Red Hat Ceph Storage serves modern workloads and helps you adapt to changing demands more quickly than traditional hardware. Thanks to Ceph's user-driven, storage life-cycle management with 100% API coverage, you can create robust, intelligent storage services on standard, distributed hardware, while your administrators adjust how the system manages itself.

Storage hardware is rapidly becoming the most expensive part of IT budgets. You can avoid proprietary appliance overhead by building a storage cluster using everyday servers and disks. Red Hat Ceph Storage runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and Ubuntu across a large selection of compatible hardware, and you can select the servers optimized for the highest performance or the largest capacity. When demands change, you can expand or reduce capacity incrementally—one disk at a time, if necessary—and Red Hat Ceph Storage will intelligently and automatically adjust to the new hardware topology.

Red Hat Ceph Storage integrates tightly with essential OpenStack services and is bundled with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, and Red Hat Cloud Suite, providing storage that is crucial for virtual machines (VMs) and fully supported cloud platforms. Compatibility with the popular S3 and Swift object storage application programming interfaces (APIs) enables integration with protocols used by Amazon Web Services and the OpenStack Object Storage project.