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Current Filter: Storage>>>>>Technology Focus> Storage re-defined Editorial Type: Technology Focus Date: 03-2015 Views: 2790 Key Topics: Storage Hyperscaling Software Defined Storage Strategy Virtualisation Data Centre Key Companies: SUSE Key Products: SUSE Enterprise Storage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Ceph Key Industries: | |||
| The rise of open-source-based software-defined solutions signals a new era of agile and scalable storage, suggests Jason Phippen, Head of Global Product Marketing at SUSE Migratory creatures such as stingrays have an innate response to changes that are reliable indicators of a changing season. Certain changes signal the onset of the migratory season, and more immediate factors, such as water temperature, determine the precise day they will migrate. Circumstances are signalling to enterprise IT organisations that a change in season is on the way for data centre infrastructure, and a few important factors are triggering a mass migration to software defined data centres. In a typical enterprise data centre today, IT organisations are rapidly breaking free from server vendor lock-in with hypervisors, which can virtualise any server using an x86 processor. However, most networking and storage environments remain silos of restrictive and expensive vendor-specific hardware and software. With software defined data centres, IT organisations are beginning to transform their networking and storage infrastructure from expensive, proprietary, vendor-specific hardware into open-source based software and low-cost, commodity hardware. Traditional enterprise-class storage can be described simply as file, block and object storage systems including software embedded on expensive, proprietary system controllers, along with server-based storage management software. Transform both types of software into open source software running on industry-standard servers and commodity storage, and you have software defined storage. This will lie at the heart of a software defined data centre, providing a flexible, cost effective, high-performance, highly-available and massively scalable storage environment.
POWERED BY CEPH Powered by Ceph and available as part of SUSE OpenStack Cloud or as a stand-alone storage solution, SUSE Enterprise Storage is a highly scalable and resilient software based storage solution that enables organisations to build these cost-efficient and highly scalable storage solutions using commodity off-the-shelf servers and disk drives. SUSE Enterprise Storage customers can have confidence that the enterprise storage solutions they deploy now and in the future are tightly integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which has a long history of delivering leading data storage functionality to enterprise customers. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was first to provide a journaling file system with XFS followed by first to market support for EXT3 and ReiserFS. It was also the first to support a clustered file system with OCSF2. And, most recently, it is the first to market with support for the scalable, copy-on-write, B-tree file system BtrFS. SUSE has over two decades of experience delivering the data integrity enterprise customers demand. SUSE Enterprise Storage customers benefit from the flexibility to deploy enterprise storage solutions on a wide selection of SUSE-certified, industry-standard hardware platforms combined with best-in-class, worldwide, enterprise, 24x7 support services.
CHANGE IS GOING TO COME
The bottom line is that the general availability of open-source-based, software defined solutions from Linux vendors like SUSE marks the beginning of a new era of much more agile, scalable and cost effective storage. | ||
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