Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: As the volume, velocity, and variety of data continue to surge in the digital era, traditional storage infrastructures are struggling to keep pace with the agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency demands of modern enterprises. Software-Defined Storage (SDS) emerges as a transformative paradigm that decouples storage software from proprietary hardware, enabling flexible, programmable, and hardware-agnostic storage architectures. This article explores the foundational principles of SDS, detailing its core architecture—including control and data planes, policy-driven automation, and API-centric management. It highlights the key business and technical benefits such as reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), improved scalability, simplified management, and seamless integration with cloud-native and containerized environments.
Authors: Faisal, Al-Harbi, Aisha, Al-Qahtani
Institution: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7034159514
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