FEATURE
DEFINING THE FUTURE
SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE PROMISES TO HELP YOU REALISE BUSINESS VALUE FROM DATA. HERE IS HOW TO GET STARTED.
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he premise of softwaredefined storage is simple – decouple management software from the underlying hardware, which gives administrators the flexibility to provision and manage storage with automated policies. It enables enterprises to unify all storage assets into a single infrastructure and manage it with a single pane of glass, solving data fragmentation and meeting changing business requirements. No wonder then Gartner predicts 50% of global 26
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storage capacity will be deployed as SDS on-premises or in the public cloud by 2024. Charbel Zreiby, Director, Channel Presales – MERAT, Dell Technologies, explains why businesses should choose SDS: “The evolution of storage media has produced a wide array of options, yet many of these current generation storage solutions fall short in their ability to support the needs of nextgeneration applications. From big data, social, mobile and cloud computing to robotics, 3D printing and the Internet of Things, new technologies require
storage media that delivers more speed, flexibility, scalability and capacity. “IT teams are also facing pressure to constrain costs and to get more done with existing resources. Software-defined storage solutions satisfy the requirements for performance, flexibility, scalability, ease of use and cost efficiency by separating the management services (control plane) from the infrastructure (data plane) of storage media while still delivering equivalent and at times better data services vs traditional storage arrays.” Paulo Pereira, Senior Director, Systems Engineering, METI at Nutanix,
