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By: Jason Phippen

July 12, 2016 12:25 pm

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Open Source vs proprietary SDS – why get locked in when you can stay open and in control?

Once upon a time, enterprise storage was defined by hardware. You installed a system, and when it ran out of space or its performance started to creak, you bolted more capacity onto the side or brought in a new, larger system and managed the painful upgrade process, data migration, or both. You chose from different […]

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By: David Byte

June 5, 2015 8:37 am

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Software Defined Storage Trajectory and SUSE

All of the analysts are predicting big things from Software Defined Storage (SDS) over the next several years.  In fact, some analysts are even predicting some very hard times for some of the traditional storage vendors.  This is all based on the tremendous pushback that is occurring against expensive, proprietary hardware based arrays […]

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