Cloud Computing: Software-defined storage previews intrigue VMware pros
September 9, 2012
IT shops have more storage infrastructure choices than ever before as more vendors jump into the software-defined storage market.
Software-defined storage abstracts storage from hardware, making storage a pooled and fungible resource across physical boundaries, managed as a service according to policy. It isn’t an entirely new concept — storage virtualization has been around for years — but putting the point of management control into the virtual server and consolidating storage and server resources onto one hardware platform is relatively novel…
The advantage is, you have a whole cluster in a box: storage, networking and servers, and you’re good to go.
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An upcoming entrant into the software-defined storage market is VMware, which has made no bones about its desire to take over the management of data center networks and storage much like it did with servers. The company has several software-defined storage technologies on its 2013 roadmap, according to sources briefed on the company’s plans, including vSAN, which is distributed software built into the ESXi hypervisor…
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