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Ceph

A free storage platform. Ceph offers high performance and large data storage via POSIX-compliant network file system (CephFS). It also offers object- and block-level storage.  Additionally, Ceph employs four types of daemons: Object storage devices, cluster monitors, metadata services and RESTful gateways.

First released2007
Developed bySage Weil
Latest stable version16 "Pacific"
Open-sourceYes
Used byCisco, Bloomberg, DreamHost

Interesting facts

Most prominent contributors are RedHat, Intel and Fujitsu

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