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Software-defined storage

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages it. The software enabling a…

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Software-defined storage industry

Characteristics

Storage hypervisor

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Software-defined storage

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples50
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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Software-defined storage

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related to Characteristics · 29
Software-defined storage → Abstraction, Automation, Ceph, Characteristics, Cinder APIs, Commodity, DAS, Examples, External-controller, Fibre Channel, NFS, Number, Object Storage, OpenFlow, OpenStack, Other, Parallel NFS, Prior, Since, SMI-S
related to Software-defined storage industry · 10
Software-defined storage → Based, Cleversafe, IBM, Nicira, OpenIO, Other, SDDC, SDN, SDS, VMware

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storage hypervisor software-defined software management virtual server hardware also data may virtualization arrays provisioning resources products across performance system vmware

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data deduplicationinstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
replicationinstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
thin provisioninginstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
snapshotsinstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
copy-on-write clonesinstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
tieringinstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
backup.Software-defined storageinstance ofThe software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features0.80text
a virtual or global file system or distributed block storageinstance ofit may suggest software0.80text
storage virtualization or storage resource managementinstance ofit suggests software0.80text
categories of products that address separateinstance ofit suggests software0.80text
different problemsinstance ofit suggests software0.80text
Software-defined storagerelated to CharacteristicsCharacteristics0.60section

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