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Report Summary - EMA Radar for Software-defined Storage: Q2 2015

Report Summary – EMA Radar for Software-defined Storage: Q2 2015

06/30/2015

Category: Radar Report

This is a summary of the “EMA Radar for Software-defined Storage: Q2 2015.“

Report Abstract

Data creation is growing at unprecedented rates with the amount of information stored doubling every year. Data is now more active throughout the lifecycle, with analytics driving competitive advantage in sales and marketing and compliance requirements needed to be met to satisfy legal obligations as well as governance.The diversity and volume of data are placing extreme operational and capital demands on an already overburdened IT. Software-defined storage (SDS) is a new technology that targets meeting these new requirements while controlling costs. SDS aims at making storage application-aware, enabling server administrators, application managers, and developers to provision storage in a policy-driven, automated self-service manner.

This EMA Radar report focuses on the core capabilities needed to deliver SDS throughout the entire enterprise. There is much more diversity with storage solutions throughout the enterprise. Storage solutions, even those from the same vendor, can have unique hardware, operating systems, connectivity, services, application program interfaces, and data types (block, file, and object). An enterprise-wide approach is preferred because one cannot get the full benefit of software-defined storage unless it is implemented on all storage in the enterprise.

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