Integrated it management that transforms compute, storage and networking into softwaredefined infrastructure to automate tasks and accelerate your business. Svsan turns the storage in commodity servers into highly available, shared storage. Improve data center efficiency and empower it operations with policydriven automation that. Run your infrastructure as code to integrate and automate it operations. Organizations can quickly add storage capacity as needs grow over time. Software defined storage market 20192025 by top key. Windows server softwaredefined wssd datacenter microsoft.
Hewlett packard enterprise hpe bundled dateras softwaredefined storage onto its servers as part of a new partnership. Hp news hp makes softwaredefined storage available to the world. Softwaredefined storage or hyperconverged infrastructure. Microsoft storage spaces direct uses industrystandard servers with locally attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable softwaredefined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional san or nas arrays. Top 12 softwaredefined storage sds companies technavio. Softwaredefined storage sds is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policybased provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. But its likely that it will be several years yet before it hits the mainstream and existing storage hardware vendors have to really start to worry. Check out softwaredefined storage for dummies to learn more. If your going to count tin wrapped software in sds, then what isnt software defined storage.
Hp software defined storage solutions softwaredefined. With qorestor, youll accelerate backup performance through protocol accelerators, reduce storage requirements and costs through contentaware, variable block deduplication, and replicate faster and safer to the. Streamline it operations and lower costs by transforming servers, storage, and networking into softwaredefinedinfrastructure. Riding this wave, storone offers softwaredefined data storage solution that is as flexible as it needs to be to handle any number of storage tasks. Simplify it with softwaredefined infrastructure solutions. Project nitro brings hp, arrow together on hp software. The software defined storage big picture putting it all together, the following diagram illustrates the concepts behind software defined storage. Project nitro brings hp, arrow together on hp softwaredefined storage. Storage spaces is a softwaredefined storage technology that enables you to virtualize storage by grouping ssds and hard disks into storage pools and then creating highperformance and resilient virtual disks, called storage spaces, from available capacity in the pools. This is a classic issue and its been difficult for enterprises to move data around. Hp announces softwaredefined storage solution with data.
Watch leaders in enterprise software defined data center technology explain the new digital transformation from networking to storage. Connect to the cloud faster and more easily with qorestor softwaredefined cloud storage, deduplication and replication. If you need more capacity for hot data, you can invest in ssds from hp, dell. Hp announces softwaredefined storage interview with hp. Softwaredefined storage is helping clients across a variety of industries manage their data. Hp makes softwaredefined storage available to the world. Computers and internet computer software industry computer storage device industry internet software software industry. Last year before the hp split, i did a series of articles looking at storevirtual vsa. Softwaredefined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages it. Softwaredefined infrastructure sdi will give you a simpler, faster, and more efficient platform that operates with little human intervention and enables you to develop and deploy apps faster. Softwaredefinedstorage sds solutions are alternative data storage programs where the storage resources are decoupled from the underlying physical. Purity operating environment from pure storage offers advanced services to help you capture the benefits of softwaredefined storage.
Nexentas flagship software defined storage sds solution, nexentastor, delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to multipetabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. This creates softwaredefined storage, networking and compute, allowing resources to be spun up and down rapidly and through api calls. Softwaredefined storage sds marks a departure from the traditional use of networkattached storage nas and storage area networks sans. In contrast to the hardwarecentric nas and san, sds uses storage virtualization to control storage through a software layer. Softwaredefined storage is part of a larger industry trend that also includes softwaredefined networking sdn, softwaredefined infrastructure and softwaredefined data centers. Hp announces softwaredefined storage solution with data tiering. Im trying not to channel kooler here, but is hardware defined storage the 23 remaining products who still use a fpga and proprietary asics. It frees you from legacy storage arrays, or masks them underneath a software layer. Eliminate it silos and reduce complexity with softwaredefined intelligence. Hp is giving its customers a free softwaredefined storage sds platform license with every purchase of intel xeon e5 v3 based servers. Solved software defined storage what are my options.
Software defined storage market research report global. Bring the latest cloudinspired innovation to your softwaredefined datacenter sddc using compute, storage, and networking software from microsoft and your choice of microsoftvalidated hardware offerings. There are some big benefits to be had, though, so its important to understand the role softwaredefined storage can. The basis of those articles were short technical white papers the team had done looking at softwaredefined storage sds. Press release software defined storage market 20192025 by top key players microsoft, ibm, hp, cisco systems, dell emc, vmware, citrix systems, nec, fujitsu, ericsson. Traditional storage systems simply wont be able to keep up, but softwaredefined storage can. Softwaredefined storage sds abstracts the management of physical storage, typically by creating a shared storage pool using industrystandard servers. Datacore san symphonyv, hp vsa, storemagic, maxta mxsp and any other that fit the bill. Softwaredefined storage for flexible data storage for. Hp storevirtual is a virtual storage appliance vsa that can replace physical storage controllers and contribute towards lowering total cost of. This offers a significant simplification to the way storage is provisioned and managed, and also paves the way for storage on industry standard servers at a fraction of the cost. Indeed, such is the interest in or perhaps exploitation of sds that seemingly every storage supplier now offers a softwaredefined approach.
Excellent growth of software defined storage market top key. Most sds users invest in 5% to 10% of flashbased tier 1 storage, and the other 90% is a mixture of sas and sata arrays. Software defined storage sds market has been valued at usd 4 billion in the year 2016, global software defined storage sds market is expected to grow at cagr of 27% from 20162022 and expected to reach market size of usd 18 billion software defined storage industry. Experience softwaredefined evolution with your new or. A softwaredefined storage platform designed to lower the costs of todays petabytescale storage needs as well as accommodate future data growth. The best software defined storage sds vendors are starwind virtual san, nutanix acropolis, red hat ceph storage, datacore sansymphony sds, and storpool. The power of softwaredefined storage sds lies in separating hardware and data. Hp bundles free softwaredefined storage platform with. Storpool is a blockstorage software that uses standard hardware and builds a storage system out of this hardware. Bring the latest cloudinspired innovation to your softwaredefined datacenter sddc using compute, storage, and networking software from.
Software defined storage for hyperconverged spiceworks. Despite the efforts of some vendors, notably datacore, which has gone from dubbing its products a storage hypervisor to softwaredefined storage according to the whims of the it marketing. Svsan is a softwaredefined storage solution designed to deliver hyperconverged compute and storage infrastructure with two or more lowcost servers. Datera joins hewlett packard enterprise complete program to accelerate enterprise transition to softwaredefined storage. Hp makes softwaredefined storage available to the world 1 taneja group, protocol choices for storage in the virtual infrastructure, june 2014. Hp and arrow are working together to make it easy to add free versions of hp s storevirtual virtual storage array to both hp. Best software defined storage vendors it central station. Softwaredefined storage administrators guide to vmware. Hp s sdn softwaredefined network technology virtualizes the network and enables businesses to tune the physical network to specific application requirements and reduces the time to deploy cloud applications from weeks to minutes. As enterprises collect more and more data and learn to pull more value from it, the need to store, protect and access that data is becoming a challenge.
Softwaredefined storage sds is an approach to building data storage that places a layer of software between storage and applications in order to help manage data growth and enable multicloud flexibility. List of top software defined storage sds solutions 2020. Softwaredefined storage sds is an approach to data storage wherein software provisions and manages storage independent from underlying hardware. Softwaredefined infrastructure hewlett packard enterprise. Softwaredefined storage sds enterprisegrade sharednothing storage solution built on server node clusters replaces traditional sannas at a much lower cost.
Software defined storage is the automation and pooling of storage through a software control plane, and the ability to provide storage from industry standard servers. Just like softwaredefined networking, softwaredefined storage is already happening in a small way, through openstack, hp storevirtual, nexenta, symantec cfs and others. Four big benefits of softwaredefined storage ibm it. The big picture of software defined storage software deployers work through a data management interface such as cdmi to convey their requirements for the data they own.
Softwaredefined storage sds is an intelligent virtualization software layer that manages and unifies every storagearea network san or networkattached storage nas device inside your data center, while providing enterpriselevel functionality with zero dependence on proprietary hardware. The power of softwaredefined storage sds is the value it brings through maximum costoptimization, flexibility, and opportunities for orchestration across the softwaredefined data center sddc. Softwaredefined storage sds marks a departure from the traditional use of network attached storage nas and storage area networks sans. Datera joins hewlett packard enterprise complete program to. I offered up a base definition of what softwaredefined storage means to hp. I found out last week that the team has updated those hp blueprints. Hp news hp makes softwaredefined storage available to. Should hds for hnas start a campaign about how they are the only hardware defined storage vendor. Prominent examples of softwaredefinedstorage include openstack, emc vipr, nexenta and hp storevirtual.
Softwaredefined storage sds is an approach to data storage in which software controls storagerelated tasks and is decoupled from physical storage hardware, allowing for the use of commodity hardware. Software defined storage storage networking industry. Hewlett packard enterprise has taken a lead role in this movement. That is why hp is introducing a set of new software based storage and infrastructure products. That storage is managed separately from the compute and hypervisor layer. An indepth guide to softwaredefined storage sds technology, how it works. The term softwaredefined storage may have recently sprang from thin air to take advantage of. Hp offers nocost vsa software with intel xeon processor e5 v3based servers and singleclick installation on new hp proliant gen9 server models. It is installed on the servers and creates a shared storage pool from their local drives in these servers.
There were seven of them and i had blog posts talking about each. Software defined storage has come from being a vague buzzword to a truly adopted technology over the last few years, though the term software defined continues to be used in any number of ways. Support for allflash nvme drives delivers unrivaled performance. Hp has been a player in softwaredefined storage and the softwaredefined data center since inception and the only vendor capable of delivering on all elements of the softwaredefined data center compute, networking, storage and managementoffering a complete sds strategy and vision based on simplicity, efficiency, and openness that makes storage availability a top priority. Datera enterprise data storage digital transformation. A recent eweek article debunked some common myths surrounding softwaredefined storage, showing how misunderstood this technology continues to be. In this way, the pooled storage infrastructure resources in a softwaredefined storage sds environment can be automatically and efficiently allocated to match the. Hpe, datera join forces on scaleout, softwaredefined storage. File storage and object storage hewlett packard enterprise. Hp makes softwaredefined storage available to the world palo alto, calif. Softwaredefined storage shines in this area as it enables you to make smart decisions when buying flash storage.