QStora

Single-vendor solutions are usually easier to implement and manage, but are also easier to lock in. When you need a new storage system, you may purchase storage arrays based on workload requirements. Traditionally, these systems included hardware and software, and you are locked in to purchase additional hardware for the system from the same vendor. When you need to increase storage capacity, or want to create multiple sites, you need to buy from the same vendor. You are locked into that vendor's technology road map and its price. If you don't want to be locked in by hardware vendors, you can choose software-defined storage. However, can all software-defined storage prevent you from being locked in by vendors? Some software-defined storage products claim to be software-defined, but they depend on specific hardware in the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), driver compatibility issues often occur, and hardware and software vendors often blame each other. If you store data o...

As a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or corporate decision maker, you manage the corporate's IT operations and infrastructure. At present, the global economy is not very prosperous. You may not have much budget to buy new equipment, but there are growing storage requirements. You may have some servers for deploying applications, such as database, WEB application, etc., these servers have spare disk slots, and the utilization of CPU and memory may be not very high. So, why not make full use of these servers, fill up the disk slots, and let these servers be used for data storage at the same time? Especially for secondary storage like backups and archives, you don’t need to purchase a separate SAN storage device, you can use software-defined storage to save the TCO. Can all software-defined storage be mixed deployed with existing applications, regardless of the hardware environment and operating system? Of course not. Some software-defined stora...