IBM Storage Ceph is an IBM® supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system.

IBM Storage Ceph is designed to enable AI with enterprise resiliency, consolidate data with software simplicity, and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs.

Engineered to be self-healing and self-managing with no single point of failure, IBM Storage Ceph includes storage analytics for critical insights into growing amounts of data. IBM Storage Ceph can be used as a simple and efficient way to build a data lakehouse for IBM watsonx.data and next-generation AI workloads.

This IBM Redpaper Redbooks publication explains the implementation details and use cases of IBM Storage Ceph. For more information about the IBM Storage Ceph architecture and technology that is behind the product, see IBM Storage Ceph Concepts and Architecture Guide, REDP-5721.

The target audience for this publication is IBM Storage Ceph architects, IT specialists, and storage administrators.

Chapter 1. IBM Storage Ceph Dashboard

Chapter 2. IBM Storage Ceph for IBM watsonx.data

Chapter 3. A real-life Object Storage as a Service case study

Chapter 4. Disaster recovery and backup and archive: IBM Storage Ceph as an Amazon S3 backup target

Chapter 5. Amazon S3 bucket notifications for event-driven architectures

Chapter 6. IBM Storage Fusion disaster recovery

Chapter 7. Amazon S3 enterprise user authentication and authorization