Living in a Software-Defined World
By admin In Blog On November 15, 2017
As we see software-defined everything emerge, network and data centers as we know it today will evolve into a cloud-based controller design. Let’s take a look at how this technology is poised to make dramatic changes to the way that organizations design, deployand manage networks and storage.
This is a marketing expression being touted by startup storage vendors to traditional vendors like NetApp and EMC. At its core, software defined storage usually refers to the disaggregation of storage functionality that was previously included as part of a storage array management layer. It can be anything from a simple volume manager to storage virtualization software that pools and aggregates hard disk capacity, thin provisions, auto tiers, etc. Others say software-defined storage delivers storage virtualization capabilities as part of an operating system or hypervisor. Marketing spins may be different , but for now it appears that software-defined storage is an attempt by vendors to put a spin on technologies that have been around for some time now
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