Ceph offers an open source storage solution to organizations seeking to to manage vast amounts of data. Organizations running applications with different storage interface needs can use Ceph to decouple their namespace from the underlying hardware or storage implementation. Ceph’s foundation is the Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS), which provides applications with object, block, and file system storage services from single unified storage cluster. This makes Ceph flexible, highly reliable and easy to manage. Ceph’s RADOS provides extraordinary data storage scalability — thousands of client hosts or virtual machines can access petabytes to exabytes of data. Each applications can use the object, block or file system interfaces to the same RADOS cluster simultaneously, which means Ceph based storage systems serve as the flexible foundation for all data storage needs.