SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE: OPTIMIZING BUSINESS VALUE AND MINIMIZING RISK IN MICROSOFT AND VMWARE STORAGE STRATEGIES
BY JON TOIGO
MANAGING PRINCIPAL TOIGO PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL LLC
CHAIRMAN DATA MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE LLC
SYNOPSIS
The buzz around software-defined storage is loud and continuous today as companies seek a storage architecture that fits the opportunities and constraints introduced by server virtualization, flash storage and high availability and failover clustering. This document reports on the current state of software-defined storage (SDS) and the reported advantages and limitations in the implementations made of SDS architecture by current hypervisor computing market share leaders, VMware and Microsoft.