Open-source alternative  ·  Enterprise Storage

Replace Red Hat Ceph Storage with Ceph.

Ceph: community edition

Community Ceph provides identical distributed storage with block, file, and object interfaces. Same codebase as Red Hat's commercial offering. Self-hosted, no per-node subscription.

You'd keep~R333 000 to ~R555 000/year

Current licence  ·  Enterprise Storage

Red Hat Ceph Storage

~R333 000 – ~R555 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Ceph

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R555 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Red Hat Ceph Storage's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard (per node)

R333 000/yr

R2 775/user/month

Per storage node

With Ceph

Keep R333 000/yr

Premium (per node)

R555 000/yr

R4 625/user/month

Per storage node

With Ceph

Keep R555 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Red Hat Ceph Storage grows around 10% per year on average. Ceph hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR246kR492kR737kR983kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R894kR56k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R3.95M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Red Hat Ceph StorageCeph (community edition), in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other enterprise storage migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.