Preface
We are a part of a digital world that is producing an enormous amount of data each second. The data growth is unimaginable and it's predicted that humankind will possess 40 Zettabytes of data by 2020. Well that's not too much, but how about 2050? Should we guesstimate a Yottabyte? The obvious question arises: do we have any way to store this gigantic data, or are we prepared for the future? To me, Ceph is the ray of hope and the technology that can be a possible answer to the data storage needs of the next decade. Ceph is the future of storage.
It's a great saying that "Software is eating the world". Well that's true. However, from another angle, software is the feasible way to go for various computing needs, such as computing weather, ...
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