Trends Report

Market Overview: Software-Only Storage

Your Next Array Should Be An Application

August 1st, 2014
Henry Baltazar, null
Henry Baltazar
With contributors:
Laura Koetzle , Glenn O'Donnell , Andrew Hewitt

Summary

Hardware appliances have dominated the enterprise data storage landscape for decades, but storage is not immune from the software-defined transformation taking place in data centers. With momentum building for converged server and storage architectures, it is the right time for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to evaluate software-only storage offerings running on commodity hardware. This market overview delves into the emergence of software as an alternative to hardware appliances and gives a detailed overview of 15 vendors' software-only storage offerings.

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