Software-defined storage (SDS) moves storage intelligence from hardware to software, allowing storage to be decoupled from hardware. This brings benefits like agility, security, and continuity of operations. SDS allows for simpler continuity through challenging periods by relying less on owned hardware and more on flexible, accessible multi-cloud environments. It also provides real-time scalability, increased choice of hardware, centralized hybrid cloud management, and is useful for backup and disaster recovery scenarios.
2. Software-defined storage (SDS) is the
key to building flexible and robust
storage configurations that deliver
performance as well as security,
without compromise or concession.
It achieves this by moving the
intelligence and functionality away
from storage hardware and onto an
independent software layer.
Agility and security
3. Decoupling storage from hardware, as
is the case with SDS, brings a huge
range of benefits for the day-to-day
duties of IT personnel. And, from a
broader company-wide perspective, it
enables simpler continuity through
challenging periods by relying less on
owned hardware and more on flexible,
accessible and affordable multi-cloud
environments.
Moving away from
hardware costs
4. Enhanced agility is also a killer benefit via
real time scalability with the ability to
scale as needed to those peaks in
workloads and deliver scale up or scale
out capability as required for workloads.
These key benefits assist in providing the
continuity of operations. There’s also no
vendor lock in, which gives customers the
ability to use their choice of hardware.
Speed, flexibility and
increased choice
5. The real power of SDS is in hybrid
environments: it can provide
centralised management of different
types of data storage and resources,
and extend on-premises storage
features to private and public cloud.
This works especially well in backup
and disaster recovery (DR) scenarios.
Distributed servers and
hybrid cloud