Storage has seen its share of technology changes in recent years, but the most significant breakthrough isn’t higher capacity arrays, it’s the shift to software-defined storage. One of the reasons many enterprises are embracing this new paradigm is that in recent decades, managing storage has been a specialized skill set which has fostered organizational silos among other issues.

In this free e-Book that I wrote for VMware, I explore:

• How virtualization and cloud management impact storage management
• Implications of the control plane transitioning from hardware-centric to app-centric
• The role of VMware hypervisor in managing storage