IDC believes that software-defined storage (SDS) continues to transform IT deployment and consumption of storage resources. For enterprises, SDS is really an on-ramp to deploying a hybrid cloud — one that allows a metered on-demand consumption of private and public cloud resources. Deploying SDS therefore is not a question of "if" but a question of "when." IDC's August 2015 Software-Defined Infrastructure Survey found that 75% of enterprises have deployed or are considering deploying some form of SDS in their environment.

For such enterpris ...

Why SDS?

SDS is key to deploying a hybrid cloud for metered, on-demand consumption of private/public cloud resources. Enterprises generally have a positive awareness and acceptance of SDS. ...

In recent years, flash has been recognized as the optimal technology to support today’s data-driven businesses. Early adopters are realizing gains in productivity, end user satisfaction, and cost-efficiency, compared with traditional storage. That’s why many businesses recognize that an all-flash data center is in their future.

In this white paper, we will examine the storage challenges faced by businesses. We consider the case for the all-flash data center, discuss the importance of a flash-optimized data protection strategy, and provide t ...

The tipping point has arrived. Large enterprises are planning their nextgeneration datacenters around flash-based storage, and for good reason. Flash arrays provide read and write performance that is orders of magnitude faster than spinning media at a total cost of ownership that is on par with disk and will soon be lower. The benefits not only include improved application performance, but more consistent performance, lower latency, reduced storage footprint, streamlined storage administration, and lower operating costs. These advantages are to ...

in our 36-criterion evaluation of software-based hyperconverged infrastructure (HCi) providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Cisco, dataCore, Hewlett Packard enterprise (HPe), Huawei, Maxta, Netapp, Nutanix, Pivot3, Scale Computing, Stratoscale, and vMware — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report details our findings about how well each vendor scored on the criteria and where they stand in relation to each other. infrastructure and operations (i&o) professionals can use this evaluation to select the right par ...