StorageShort: What is Vendor-defined SDS and does it benefit the user?

SDS promises to deliver a number of benefits to end users, including flexibility, management simplicity and cost savings. Storage vendors can also leverage SDS technologies, but many do it for their own benefits. In this Storage Short, Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump, explains what “vendor-defined” is and what benefits it provides for end users.

Vendor-defined storage is one of the topics covered in a recent StorageSwiss webinar “Cleaning up the SDS Mess – Four Keys to Success”, with George Crump and Nexenta’s Thomas Cornley.

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Eric is an Analyst with Storage Switzerland and has over 25 years experience in high-technology industries. He’s held technical, management and marketing positions in the computer storage, instrumentation, digital imaging and test equipment fields. He has spent the past 15 years in the data storage field, with storage hardware manufacturers and as a national storage integrator, designing and implementing open systems storage solutions for companies in the Western United States.  Eric earned degrees in electrical/computer engineering from the University of Colorado and marketing from California State University, Humboldt.  He and his wife live in Colorado and have twins in college.

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