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Ceph is a distributed, software-defined storage solution designed for scalability, reliability, and performance. It provides object storage, block storage, and file system interfaces from a single unified platform. This makes it suitable for a wide range of workloads, from cloud infrastructure and backups to archiving and high-performance computing.

This document explores various storage architectures and key concepts, including object storage, Single Point of Storage (SPOS), Single Point of Backup and Storage (SPBS), and the distributed storage platform, Ceph. We will discuss their characteristics, trade-offs, and suitability for different use cases.