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Pros and cons of 4 types of software defined storage (SDS)

Physical application servers are now an outdated, foreign concept and it’s a smart assumption that servers will be virtualized. Software-defined storage (SDS) is poised to continue this journey to the software-defined infrastructure/data center and has a special place in the future of virtualization as a key tool in future-proofing an infrastructure. Continue reading to learn about the pros and cons of 4 types of SDS:

  • Hypervisor based SDS
  • Hyper-converged infrastructure SDS
  • Storage virtualization SDS
  • Scale-out object and/or file SDS.

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