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ABSTRACT:
Today, even the most expensive storage arrays are software running on standard computers using commodity hardware components. Clearly, the brains, the solution, the value, are in the software. They certainly aren't in the hardware components that anyone can buy at commodity prices and (given the production cycles of these arrays) in better, faster, newer versions at the local computer store. The sheet metal wrapper blurs this distinction, tricking us into continuing to think of "storage" as a "thing," a singularity, a box, instead of as a "result"- using software to create storage services from raw resources produced by physical devices. But there's a steep price for this 'togetherness,' and at no time is this clearer than when the useful life of that box is over and you throw it all away, together, only to invest once again in a hardware-imprisoned, but software-dominated, storage solution.
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AUTHOR:
George Teixeira
CEO & President, DataCore Software Corporation
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