Building on the trend toward Software-Defined everything, Bob Hammer, CEO of #Commvault, is promoting a vision of Software-Defined Data Services that may ultimately disrupt one of the most stable areas of enterprise computing, persistent storage. While this sounds like just another acronym, if you dig in a bit, what Hammer is proposing is a new way for companies to organize their information, one that fits neatly into the points made by the concept of the data lake, the scale-out storage of HDFS, and the theory of technology evolution proposed by @RayKurzweil, the legendary inventor and futurist. What Hammer is proposing is a higher level of abstraction for storing and managing data. Right now, in the current generation of systems, the objects that we use to store data are the storage array and the files and documents inside them along with the database and the tables and records inside it. To manage that information, an external system must track the metadata that describes how it is connected and used.
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