Applications for Storage or Storage for Applications?
With many new start ups from storage arrays, converged, hyper-converged to software defined storage (SDS), many users starts to have lots of choice to make. Recently encountering many questions on which should they choose and which is better. However there is no straight answer as there are just too many choices to choose from just like in a supermarket. In the end, some may choose one that advertise the best and create the best reminder in your mind. To be truth, you will not buy and replaced the rest, but rather some have a hybrid environment for some reasons which we will go through later. With several asks and questions, I like to give some guideline when deciding. Here I will do my best to start with no bias towards any technology and this is my personal opinion and may not be the same with others. 1. Ease of management: A big word often misused by marketing I would say. Assess it and ask yourself do you have a team to manage different comp...