Software-Defined Storage Hydrates the Cloud
Data centers have gone through a major transition over the past ten years. The use of servers dedicated to a specific role or application has given way to server virtualization which is dramatically evolving the data center landscape for the compute portion of the data center, driving to higher levels of cost efficiency and flexibility. Until recently storage and networking have lagged behind in this transition, but are now rapidly gaining ground with the use of software-based storage and networking running on a range of industry-standard hardware vs. being tied to a specific vendor’s hardware platform with the associated higher cost involved.