IBM's software-defined storage rides Watson's coattails

May 12, 2014

Storage is now marching down the same path as computing, approaching a future when all of an organization’s storage systems can be mixed and managed as virtual pools.On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for so-called software-defined storage, an area where established vendors and startups alike are already claiming the future has arrived. IBM is using TV star power to push its entries, saying the products are based partly on technology the company used with its high-powered Watson system on the TV game show Jeopardy.That technology, called “Elastic Storage,” aims at some of the same goals as EMC’s ViPR 2.0 software, which launched last week. The general idea is to be able to access any type of data across all of an enterprise’s storage systems in multiple locations. Just as it did with servers, virtualization treats storage arrays as a collective resource that can be split into virtual systems to suit application requirements.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2153860/ibms-softwaredefined-storage-rides-watsons-coattails.html#tk.rss_all