Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Ceph Storage 4
to deliver simplified, petabyte-scale object storage for cloud-native
development and data analytics. Red
Hat Ceph Storage 4 is based on the Nautilus version
of the Ceph open source project.
With enhanced scalability and new, simplified operational
features, Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 helps enable organizations across a wide
variety of industries, such as financial services, government, automotive and
telecommunications, to better support application development, data analytics,
artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other emerging workload
capabilities.
Industry-leading scalability for modern data workloads
Enabling organizations to deploy petabyte-scale Amazon Simplified
Storage Service (S3) compatible object storage, Red Hat Ceph Storage delivers
performance at scale while maintaining cloud economics. In recent internal
testing of its enhanced performance capabilities, the latest version of Red Hat
Ceph Storage delivered over a two-time performance boost for write intensive
workloads, making it even better-suited to fulfill the performance needs of
today's data-intensive applications.
As modern data workloads add stress and complexity to storage
infrastructure, it's critical to automate housekeeping tasks to enable greater
scale. With increased automation of data management and data placement
activities, Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 helps infrastructure teams evolve from
storage-centric to service-centric operational models, to serve a larger
cross-section of applications and stakeholders. Sophisticated self-managing and
self-healing capabilities available with Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 around
automated backup, recovery, and provisioning, enhance not only scale but also
business continuity for enterprises looking to offer "always on"
service level agreements.
Simplified operations with enhanced observability and
automation
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 is optimized for organizations' need to
store and manage the rapidly growing volumes of data being generated by
emerging workloads, without requiring additional operations staff to do so. For
IT operations teams looking for a simplified and intuitive operational experience,
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 includes several new features:
- A simplified installer experience, which enables standard
installations that can be performed in less than 10 minutes.
- A new management dashboard for a unified, "heads up" view of
operations at all times, helping teams to identify and resolve problems
more quickly.
- A new quality of service monitoring
feature, which
helps verify storage Quality of Service for applications in a multi-tenant
hosted cloud environment.
- Integrated bucket notifications to support Kubernetes-native
serverless architectures, which enable automated data pipelines.
Availability
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 is generally available today.