With increasing frequency, I’m asked for my thoughts on the emerging software-defined storage category. Whenever I’m presented with a new tech term, I ask whether it truly defines a new product category, or if it’s simply an attempt to make an existing technology seem more glamorous. Software-defined storage is a little bit of both. If we really have to have a separate term for this group of products, here is what I think that definition should be.
We have been using software to define storage for as long as there has been storage. One could take the stance that a volume-manager application is essentially software defining storage. But those promoting the current term clearly have more in mind. You could also easily lump anything that does storage virtualization into this category, and we are seeing many of the storage virtualization vendors do just that.
By: George Crump
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