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Ceph uniquely delivers **object, block, and file storage in one unified
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system**. Ceph is highly reliable, easy to manage, and free. The power of Ceph
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can transform your company’s IT infrastructure and your ability to manage vast
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amounts of data. Ceph delivers extraordinary scalability--thousands of clients
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accessing petabytes to exabytes of data. Ceph leverages commodity hardware and
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intelligent daemons to accommodate large numbers of storage hosts, which
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communicate with each other to replicate data, and redistribute data
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dynamically. Ceph's cluster of monitors oversees the hosts in the Ceph storage
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cluster to ensure that the storage hosts are running smoothly.
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