Swamped by ever-growing volumes of data? Struggling to keep up with the demands of data-intensive modern workloads and applications? The pressure to simplify operations, optimize costs, and scale quickly and seamlessly has never been greater.
Managing storage infrastructure in-house is expensive, complex, and drains your IT teams’ time. Now, you can free your IT staff from the complexities of managing storage with IBM Storage Ceph as a Service–delivering enterprise-class, fully managed software-defined storage, built for today’s dynamic workloads.
Do you need to run workloads covering multiple access protocols at scale? Looking to evolve to a software-defined storage strategy? Want reliable, on-premises infrastructure without the management burden? IBM handles everything–so you don’t have to.
To address these challenges, today, IBM announced Storage Ceph as a Service, a fully managed offering that delivers the scale, flexibility, availability, and cost efficiency of cloud storage to your datacenter, leaving the management and maintenance of the Ceph clusters to IBM experts.
How You Can Benefit from IBM Storage Ceph as a Service
Control and optimize IT Spending
- Reduces operational costs by aligning spending with actual usage, avoiding underutilization and over-provisioning.
- Provides predictable monthly fee structure instead of variable costs.
- Minimizes expenses related to hiring and training highly specialized IT staff.
Improve Operational Agility
- 24/7 Support and Monitoring
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- Continuous system monitoring and rapid issue resolution.
- Round-the-clock support for technical problems.
- Proactive maintenance and problem prevention.
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- Reduces system downtime and technical disruptions.
- Allows teams to focus on core business objectives and activities.
- Increases staff efficiency through streamlined operations.
On-premises cloud architecture
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- Gain the flexibility of cloud storage with the security and cost advantages of on-premises infrastructure
- Ensures software and systems stay current and secure.
- Facilitates faster adoption of new workloads.
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- Strengthen operational resiliency using cluster-level preventative measures.
- Integrate best practices for security and patch management.
- Architected for disaster recovery support and for business continuity.
- Scalability and Expertise
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- Adapts to changing business needs and growth, scaling capacity as you need.
- Access to IBMs IT expertise and knowledge.
- Managed by a single point of contact for all your Ceph cluster needs
Working With Storage Ceph as a Service
IBM Storage Ceph as a Service has simple storage management, whether you are provisioning new storage capacity or monitoring performance.
Upon logging in, you are greeted with a high-level overview of your Storage Ceph cluster. This includes usage metrics, performance analytics, and cluster health status.
Provisioning storage volumes is simple. With just 9 clicks you can define the location and size of new volumes, apply access policies, and commit the changes.
Its self-service provisioning model and intuitive interface makes it easy for you to manage storage resources, deliver value faster, and reduce admin bottlenecks.
How to Get IBM Storage Ceph as a Service
Starting at $0.026USD per GB/mo1, IBM Storage Ceph as a Service is available in two deployment tiers, Performance and Capacity. Each deployment includes everything you need (hardware, software, and networking) to start provisioning your Ceph environment immediately.
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Performance Tier
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Capacity Tier
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Designed for performance-sensitive applications that require unified data access.
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Designed for cost-efficient and long-term preservation of warm and cold data.
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Ideal for virtual machine storage, cloud-native applications, dev/test environments, and more.
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Ideal for cost-efficient, large capacity data lakes, active archive, and more.
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Capacity options: 100TB to 800TB
(in licensable increments of 100TB).
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Capacity options: 800TB to 3,200TB
(in licensable increments of 800TB).
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30% buffer for optional burst usage above committed capacities, providing added flexibility for handling peak demands.
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Available at 3, 4, and 5-year terms
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To learn more, download the data sheet, go to https://www.ibm.com/products/storage-ceph, or contact your local IBM representative or technology provider.
Footnotes: 1. Pricing based on the listed price for IBM Storage Ceph as a Service standard configurations and service options. Link
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