Software-defined Storage: What Can It Do For You?

The term software-defined storage (SDS) is an umbrella-type concept for various SDS visions and respective technologies still developing its industry-accepted definition, standards, SDS stacks, and ecosystem of vendors and products. Nevertheless, SDS as a technology innovation-enabling transition to the Third Platform is attracting attention of IT organizations looking to implement service-centric agile storage infrastructures. Consequently, SDS affects future infrastructure design, storage service road maps, and budget priorities.

How will various non-IT companies include SDS in the storage services roadmaps they develop to meet business requirements? As large investments have been made in the existing storage environments, it is important to understand whether traditional storage platforms can coexist with SDS. Or will legacy storage be converted into SDS?

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Mikhail Gloukhovtsev does a nice job of defining what SDS is and how to separate marketing myths from reality. Mikhail reviews SDS benefits, challenges in developing this technology, how SDS is related to a broader concept of software-defined data center (SDDC), use cases, and future trends.

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