With VMworld 2014 just kicking off, VMware already made an awesome, and somewhat unexpected, announcement being VMware EVO:RAIL!!!
EVO:RAIL seems to be the first product in the EVO family, so it looks like VMware probably got more surprises up their sleeves in the near future.
Let’s take a quick look at this new product range and what it’s first family member RAIL is all about…
Software Defined everything. Still a very hot item in the ever strong developing IT landscape.
In the year 2012 ‘Software Defined’ looked like just another buzzword, but the market is changing direction more and more towards software defined solutions. The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is nowadays supported by Software Defined Storage (SDS), Software Defined Network (SDN) and security solutions. All very cool stuff!! I want to take a closer look at SDS in this blog post.
So…What is Software Defined Storage? Everybody has an idea on what it should be. My idea of SDS matches the quote below:
Software-defined storage (SDS) is the process of using software-based techniques to create, deploy and manage storage resources and infrastructure. It enables abstracting or separating storage services from hardware devices by using software or programmatic access to extract and manipulate storage resources