Joe Arnold founded SwiftStack to deploy high-scale, open-source cloud storage systems using OpenStack. He managed the first public OpenStack Swift launch independent of Rackspace, and has subsequently deployed multiple large-scale cloud storage systems. He is currently building tools to deploy and manage OpenStack Swift with his firm, SwiftStack.
"Software-defined," like any new trend that technology companies rush to
attach to has suffered from marketing hype. Starting in mid-2012 with the
acquisition of Nicera by VMware, most traditional infrastructure technology
vendors across compute, networking, and storage have some messaging around
how software-defined fits into their product strategy.
But software-defined is not a traditional concept. Since the transition from
mainframe to distributed computing, corresponding with the rise in
networking, most technologies in the data center have been very hardware
specific. For many years, the way to get the right amount of intelligence in
the right place to execute the functionality has been with specialized
hardware.
Software-defined is fairly self-explanatory. The value is in the software,
with one of the biggest benefits being the use of standard hardware that i... (more)
Joe Arnold founded SwiftStack to deploy high-scale, open-source cloud storage systems using OpenStack. He managed the first public OpenStack Swift launch independent of Rackspace, and has subsequently deployed multiple large-scale cloud storage systems. He is currently building tools to deploy and manage OpenStack Swift with his firm, SwiftStack.
Charles Araujo
Emily Jackson
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