Software defined software adoption is growing, which puts the spotlight on the costs of SDS. One of the major drivers for adoption of SDS is cost savings. Ideally, SDS enables lower storage costs by reducing capital expenditures and sharply reducing operational costs over proprietary SAN and NAS.

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2. Software defined software adoption is growing,
which puts the spotlight on the costs of SDS.
One of the major drivers for adoption of SDS is
cost savings. Ideally, SDS enables lower
storage costs by reducing capital expenditures
and sharply reducing operational costs over
proprietary SAN and NAS.

3. One of the main advantages of a best-of-breed SDS solution is
that it is versatile and can adapt to your needs, use case and
circumstances.
For example: if you have 10 data centers around the world, each
with its unique outlay, power density requirements, scale, type
of customers – you name it – SDS can be easily tailored to fit in.
In this way, companies can have a powerful and reliable IT
infrastructure layer, yet will not have to apply a one-fits-all
approach.
This will bring cost savings and simplify management, as
regardless of where the datacenter is in the world – you can
consolidate on one storage platform to power your entire
business.
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4. By using SDS companies can save to a different extent,
depending on their starting position and end goals.
For example, if a company refreshes an IT system, built entirely
by a two- or three-letter vendors, with a new-age SDS-powered
system – the cost savings will be significant. In other cases cost
savings might be lower or on par with existing state. In this case
the customer will get a much more capable and future-proof
cloud, with all other advantages this brings.
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5. SDS are designed with PB+ scale in mind. Hardware is there to
provide the platform to make it all happen, but data was at the
center – not hardware and its limitations.
As a result, SDS solutions cover a very wide range of capacity –
from 5 TB to 2 PB or more. This is a range, which would usually
be covered by several product families of a traditional SAN or
all-flash array vendors. With the best SDS solutions companies
not only can start small, but they can grow as the need comes,
without any interruptions, downtime or migrations of the
workloads which run on the storage platform.
S C A L A B I L I T Y

6. The zero “vendor lock-in” concept is nice but close to impossible
to achieve. In the end, customers always have soft or sometimes
very hard lock-in to a given technology, IT stack or even staff
competence. However with SDS companies are much closer to
“no vendor lock-in”.
Customers can: Use all standard hardware, which is inexpensive
and easy to procure.
Customers can change hardware platforms at wish, without
complex and risky data migrations, as the data lives in the
software layer, and is abstracted from hardware.
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7. Another TCO consideration is that IT can afford more storage
capacity with commodity storage, even with enterprise-grade
hardware.
For example, a new SAN with 22TB of raw data can easily cost
$60,000. If you save that money and buy SDS and on commodity
storage, you get high performance/high capacity storage nodes
with a third to double as much raw data -- at a lower cost.
U S A B L E S T O R A G E C A P A C I T Y

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