Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) vs. IBM Storage Ceph

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) provides distributed, resilient, high-performance storage and retrieval of binary large object (blob) data. Object storage is distributed across a cluster of hardware systems, or nodes. The storage cluster is resilient against hard drive failure within a node and against node failure within a cluster. Nodes can be added to or removed from the cluster to adjust cluster capacity as needed.N/A
IBM Storage Ceph
Score 8.0 out of 10
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IBM® Storage Ceph® is a software-defined storage platform that consolidates block, file and object storage to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while retaining the cost benefits and data sovereignty advantages of on-premises IT.N/A
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User Ratings
Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)IBM Storage Ceph
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(5 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS)IBM Storage Ceph
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
IBM Cloud storage is a platform for backing up and archiving an unlimited amount of data in a simple, inexpensive, and adaptable manner. It adds additional smart tier capabilities, such as automatic tier categorization and cost optimizations depending on data activity. More secure storage of sensitive information through encryption and fine-grained regulation. A single, permanent, safe, and inexpensive location for all that historical data is IBM's cloud. Now, with query-in-place and machine-learning technologies, developers may create a data lake from which to draw meaningful insights. Offering both high levels of data durability and transmission speed, it is ideal for storing sensitive information on devices that must remain unchanged. Because of the service's excessive latency, a conventional database cannot be stored on it.
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IBM
Large scale data storage: Red Hat Ceph Storage is designed to be highly scalable and can handle large amounts of data. It's well suited for organizations that need to store and manage large amounts of data, such as backups, images, videos, and other types of multimedia content.Cloud-based deployments: Red Hat Ceph Storage can provide object storage services for cloud-based applications such as SaaS and PaaS offerings. It is well suited for organizations that are looking to build their own cloud storage infrastructure or to use it as a storage backend for their cloud-based applications.High-performance computing: Red Hat Ceph Storage can be used to provide storage for high-performance computing (HPC) applications, such as scientific simulations and other types of compute-intensive workloads. It's well suited for organizations that need to store
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Pros
Cisco
  • Cisco Cloud Object Storage closely monitor the stored content in the entire system.
  • Different collaboration tools are deployed by Cisco Cloud Object Storage.
  • Cisco Cloud Object Storage has deployed [international] standards to avoid insecurity occurrences.
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IBM
  • Highly resilient, almost every time we attempted to destroy the cluster it was able to recover from a failure. It struggled to when the nodes where down to about 30%(3 replicas on 10 nodes)
  • The cache tiering feature of Ceph is especially nice. We attached solid state disks and assigned them as the cache tier. Our sio benchmarks beat the our Netapp when we benchmarked it years ago (no traffic, clean disks) by a very wide margin.
  • Ceph effectively allows the admin to control the entire stack from top to bottom instead of being tied to any one storage vendor. The cluster can be decentralized and replicated across data centers if necessary although we didn't try that feature ourselves, it gave us some ideas for a disaster recovery solution. We really liked the idea that since we control the hardware and the software, we have infinite upgradability with off the shelf parts which is exactly what it was built for.
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Cons
Cisco
  • Better 3rd party integration is needed for the use cases where applications can use Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) directly.
  • Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) implementation with an On-premise network can be made more robust.
  • There can be some enhancement in the version control feature of the files specifically for the REST API based applications.
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IBM
  • GUI based mainetenence should be developed
  • Unable to detect storage latencies
  • VM to disk mapping should be visible so as to save some critical applications data in case of HDD failures
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Usability
Cisco
Cisco Cloud Object Storage (COS) stands out in terms of scalability, reliability, and security. Even the storage plans are competitive with other cloud object storage providers. It provides great performance for unstructured data and large datasets, which are highly used in industries requiring analyses of large datasets. For an efficient user experience, it also provides content delivery for the users spanning across the globe.
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
The storage capacity on Cisco Cloud Object Storage is amazing and the data protection functionalities are very active. The Cisco Cloud Object Storage has [the] most cluster storage management options and [easiest] tools which offer amazing capabilities on easy management of multiple media files through the Cloud services without risking any information.
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IBM
MongoDB offers better search ability compared to Red Hat Ceph Storage but it’s more optimized for large number of object while Red Hat Ceph Storage is preferred if you need to store binary data or large individual objects. To get acceptable search functionality you really need to compile Red Hat Ceph Storage with another database where the search metadata related to Red Hat Ceph Storage objects are stored.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Improved Efficiency
  • Smooth team work
  • Knowledge management
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IBM
  • 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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