Azure Blob Storage vs Red Hat Ceph Storage

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Blob Storage is well suited for cases where you are working with different data formats and looking for cost-effective storage solutions based on access frequency. Another area of strength is the encryption of data at rest, and encryption can be managed on your own. However, it may not be appropriate for transferring large data very fast.

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Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employees

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It is absolutely, hands down the best storage solution for Open Stack. I would even argue it is the only solution if a company is operating at petabyte scale and need resiliency. The storage solution allows any organization to scale their environment using commodity hardware from top to bottom. It has a battle tested track record where it is even being used as the data storage back end for the Large Hadron Collider at Cern

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Colby Shores

DevOps Engineer

Voice Media GroupMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Ease of use both through Azure Portal as well as API.
Cost-effective solution for storing a large amount of data compared to other storage solutions.
Scalability, Security, and Performance are the other key aspects of Azure Blob Storage that are easily manageable through Admin Console.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Breaking down storage units into manageable clusters.
Enhancing data protection.

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Gerald Wilson

Software Engineer

PlainID - The Authorization CompanyComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Unstructured data makes it harder to conceptualize what we have but with partners like Panzura that has been a non-issue for us.
Not always easy to understand the different models or tiers you can pick from when purchasing.

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Manager in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

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Deployment of Ceph cluster through the Management Console might fail in some cases; better error reporting would be a good improvement there.
The Management Console should provide more options for configuring the Ceph cluster in detail.
There should be a mechanism for distributing ceph.conf to all nodes.

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Valentin Höbel

Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure

open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0.0,081 per GB/per month

Azure Blob Storage Editions & Modules

Edition

Block Blobs	$0.0081¹
Azure Data Lake Storage	$0.0081¹
Managed Discs	$1.54²
Files	$0.058³

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Red Hat Ceph Storage Editions & Modules

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Support Rating

Azure Blob Storage 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Documentation sometimes appears to be out of date or not fully documented properly with new releases. It is like documentation comes out for a specific version and is quickly out of date. Another issue is documentation is scarce on new releases and only seems to get properly updated (and sometimes is still wrong) once enough people hit the forums to complain.

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Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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No score

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Alternatives Considered

We are affiliated with Azure so Azure Storage is our only choice but I have worked with other storage resources of Azure like Azure Data Lake Storage. Both are good and robust storage resource but they differ in the application that they do best

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Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Red Hat Ceph storage is most comparable with VMware Virtual SAN which we currently use in production. It had about the same default resiliency although we had far more customization options with Ceph albeit more difficult to configure. VMware Virtual SAN is such an expensive item that it was worth it for us to explore Ceph as an alternative. Both had similar cons of being best mated with their preferred hypervisors (Open Stack as opposed to VMware ESXi) and neither had NFS access. Netapp was less performant than our Ceph cluster with cache tiering and far more proprietary however it does have NFS support which is crucial when being used as a storage back end for VMWare. We found our Netapp to be far less resilient as well as it does require regular maintenance.We found for our medium sized business that the Nutanix had the upgradability, NFS support, and performance and much of the resiliency of Ceph so we decided to go in that direction. If our company where operating at petabyte scale however, Ceph is hands down the best solution available!

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Colby Shores

DevOps Engineer

Voice Media GroupMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Allowed us to store files more cheaply than on-prem.
Allowed us to store files securely.
Allowed us to transport files with HTTPS easily.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Ceph allows my customer to scale out very fast.
Ceph allows distributing storage objects through multiple server rooms.
Ceph is fault-taulerant, meaning the customer can lose a server room and would still be able to access the storage.

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Valentin Höbel

Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure

open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Azure Blob Storage vs Red Hat Ceph Storage