Ceph Distributed Storage in Barcelona

In Barcelona, with the 22@ tech district in Poblenou, the port logistics of the Zona Franca and the industry of the Baix Llobregat, storage stops being a detail once the business grows: a proprietary array that fills up, a vSAN tied to rising licences, or a NAS that becomes a single point of failure. Ceph solves that with distributed storage that replicates data across nodes, self-heals and scales by adding disks, not by swapping arrays.

We are just 47 km away, in the metropolitan area: we design, deploy and operate the Ceph cluster remotely, with the same judgement we use to run our own platform. Replica 3 or erasure coding depending on your case —cost versus resilience versus performance— and the maths done before buying a single disk.

Frequently asked questions

• Does Ceph replace my array or vSAN?

  Yes. Ceph is distributed storage with replication across nodes: it replaces a proprietary SAN or vSAN and scales horizontally by adding nodes, without the per-licence cost or the single point of failure of an array.

• Replica 3 or erasure coding for Barcelona?

  It depends on the workload. Replica 3 gives maximum resilience and performance for hot data; erasure coding makes capacity cheaper for cold data in exchange for more CPU. We do the maths with your data and choose with judgement.

• Can you operate it remotely from Catalonia?

  Yes. Design, deployment and operation are done remotely with 24/7 monitoring; we are 47 km away and physical presence, if the hardware needs it, is planned in writing.

• What happens if a node or a disk fails?

  Ceph is designed for that: it replicates and self-heals. If a disk or a node fails, the data stays available and the cluster rebalances on its own. We watch it to act before a fault turns into an outage.