abstract:Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing theme for promoting storage technologies. Based on the same concepts in Software-defined networking (SDN)
As a result, hybridsoftware-definedstoragewillincreasinglybecomean importantmeans to maintainapplicationanddataportabilityacross hybrid itenvironments.
This is true even though technologies such as virtualization, deduplication, intelligent storage tiering and more recently softwaredefinedstorage allow more efficient utilization of storage hardware.