Ceph is an open-source, software-defined storage platform that provides object, block, and file storage from one distributed cluster of commodity servers. It uses the CRUSH algorithm to place and rebalance data automatically and protects it with replication or erasure coding, scaling to petabytes with no single point of failure. Data centers and private clouds use Ceph as a unified, hardware-agnostic storage backend.
Category: IT & Compute Infrastructure · Subcategory: Storage & Virtualization · Part of the AIDC Technical Terminology reference.