Ceph is the open source answer to software
defined storage, however it's much more than that. in an era where the demands
on storage are like at no other time before, innovative, scalable and flexible
storage abstraction is needed. IT cannot afford to be bound by limitations of
hardware centric storage, when the applications that are served by this storage
are virtual, cloud enabled and mobile. Ceph is a single platform that can sit
over any storage hardware yet present storage in the form you need it from
Object through to block and ready to be cloud enabled. This IDC white paper
gives a great objective analysis of why Ceph is so transformative and why its
important that IT professionals understand what Ceph has got to offer