“There’s a significant shift afoot in storage fundamentals, and it’s not storage area networks (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS)– although both will have critical roles in these new fundamentals. The shift involves the facilitating role that metadata will play in abstracting the specifics about data and where it’s stored from the applications, end users, and operating systems requiring access to it.” Read the article at ZDNews.
The Future of Storage is in the Data–the Metadata
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This is an excellent article that delivers on all of the key insights needed to understand where storage virtualization is going (and came from) and how it will affect you in the future – but not the kind that generally plays well on OSNews, unfortunately (storage just isn’t sexy enough, I guess).