MOC was formed to develop a common, cloud-based infrastructure for businesses, governments, and nonprofits to create and share cloud technologies and analyze big data to better understand and serve customers. MOC needed an open source public cloud storage solution to help users conduct innovative research and take advantage of the latest technology from local providers. By choosing an open source solution, MOC could use industry-standard servers and scale as needed to cost-effectively support growth.

After deploying OpenStack^® as its infrastructure foundation, MOC chose Red Hat Ceph Storage for its storage solution. With expert Red Hat training and support, MOC built and deployed its Ceph environment using hardware donations from technology vendors. MOC now runs three storage clusters: a production environment, a research and experimental cluster, and an internal testing cluster. “We needed a cost-effective, reliable, and scalable storage solution to accommodate the large amounts of data our researchers work with,” said Piyanai Saowarattitada, director of Engineering at MOC. “We found it with Red Hat Ceph Storage.”

With its new storage solution, MOC can expand its storage network to meet researchers’ growing needs for developing innovative, data-intensive applications and performing detailed analysis. “Red Hat Ceph Storage provides a solid, scalable platform for big data applications, letting our researchers focus on analytics and innovation instead of data collection and storage,” said Saowarattitada. By running the solution on industry-standard hardware, MOC reduced its overall technology expenses and increased reliability.