Data center modernization is inevitable to keep pace with today’s performance-intensive workloads, which are growing especially rapidly in the financial services and e-commerce sectors.
Software-defined storage (SDS) offers the promise of greater agility, scalability and reduced costs, making it a compelling part of the platform architect’s vision of a streamlined, software-driven infrastructure.
A common priority for modernization is retiring traditional Fibre Channel (FC) SANs, which are perceived as legacy and complex. While still adequate for many application workloads, performance gaps exist in SDS block storage solutions that are engineered into legacy FC SANs, which cannot support the organization’s mission-critical application workloads.
Once reserved as the primary storage tier for traditional workloads,
Modeling hyperscaler cloud architecture is gaining significant momentum in enterprise data centers as many IT teams are repatriating their public cloud workloads back on premises, modernizing their data center for cloud native workloads or building their own specialized public cloud services. They want to integrate the best capability and efficiency aspects of the public cloud with on-premises control. Several key benefits of the public cloud are driving data-center requirements, which include efficiency, scalability, flexibility, automation and agility.
Technological innovations have emerged as key enablers of best-of-breed cloud architecture to achieve the benefits promised by the public cloud, which are software-defined storage, open source orchestrators such as Kubernetes, and NVMe-oF (Nonvolatile Memory Express Over Fabrics). All are gaining popularity as foundational components of modern cloud architecture.
What Is NVMe-oF?
The NVMe-oF v1.0 specification was released in June 2016. NVMe-oF is a network protocol that extends the parallel access and low latency features of Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol across networked storage. Originally designed for local storage and common in direct-attached storage (DAS) architectures, NVMe delivers high-speed data access and low latency by directly interfacing with solid-state disks. NVMe-oF allows these same advantages to be achieved in distributed and Continue reading
Carol Platz