Software Defined Storage (SDS) has been a hot topic with IT professionals for quite some time. But now, we have now moved beyond a simple level of curiosity and interest, to frequent and active deployments of SDS solutions across all industries and organizations of all sizes. 

SDS is bringing about a real transformation in terms of how companies procure and provision storage resources. The available features and market awareness of today’s SDS solutions are much better aligned with current data center challenges than any other time before. As a result, more companies are looking into software defined storage solutions as a way to drive new levels of capital and operational efficiencies throughout their data centers.

That is why I'd like to share the following white paper with you: Key reasons to use software defined storage—and How to get started. This collateral is a great starting point if you haven’t considered SDS and want to see the discussion about Software Defined Storage deployment approaches that resolve the challenges not being addressed by traditional storage.

As you already know, traditional storage approaches have largely been outpaced by the exponential growth in storage-related demands for capacity, performance, quality-of-service, functionality, flexibility and of course, budget.  Here are some of the key reasons to use SDS:

 Increased flexibility: Organizations can use a mix of heterogeneous hardware to meet changing demands.
 Automated management: Policy-driven control helps put data in the right place at the right time with the right cost, automatically.
 Cost efficiency: Using standards-based hardware, organizations can lower both acquisition costs and total cost of ownership.
 Virtually limitless scalability: The storage infrastructure can be scaled out and still managed as a single enterprise-class system with high performance and reliability.
 Enhanced agility: Storage infrastructures can be updated rapidly to keep pace with business demands.

In a sense, storage has been “software-defined” for decades. The difference is that in the past, the software ran only in dedicated storage systems rather than on servers. Today, however, storage software might run in a storage system, be provided to run on servers like other applications, or be delivered as a cloud service. 

The good news is that you may already have parts of a software defined storage architecture in place even though you may not think of them in that way. SDS offerings that will be best suited for you will let you choose your physical storage on merit and they will also accommodate and integrate into the infrastructure you already have.

At Sentia, we have seen the benefits of SDS implementations and our clients no longer have to constantly spend to add extra capacity and manually manage their complex environments. We have gained experience in deploying SDS solutions successfully and can confirm it is a step in the right direction that our clients are very satisfied with.

Read the white paper now: 
Key Reasons to Use Software Defined Storage—and How to Get Started

For any other questions about SDS, please feel free to contact me to get a conversation started.

Thank you,
Roger Osmond
President, Sentia