Senior Manager IT Infrastructure at Trusource Labs
Real User
2020-02-20T06:38:00Z
Feb 20, 2020
I have been in this business for 35 years and I am the network engineering for a global company which is called MRI holdings. I worked for large service providers and when the internet became popular, I worked for a company called Verio that went and bought big regional ISPs. We converted them under one billing system, one engineering structure, and one call center. I noticed that a lot of people — especially some young engineers that I have had working for me — liked the model putting in a server and then creating some LANs and hooking up some storage. It was pretty easy and I was doing that all the way back in 2000. So I wanted to do something that was a little more forward-thinking. That is why I got into the hyper-converged infrastructure which posed some advantages.
What is software-defined storage? Software-defined storage (SDS) is a software-based storage solution that provides greater flexibility and independence than the traditional network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN). Although software-defined storage can work in and on top of both NAS and SAN environments, it is usually created to perform on the industry common x86 servers.
Software-defined storage allows for separation and independence from traditional hardware...
I have been in this business for 35 years and I am the network engineering for a global company which is called MRI holdings. I worked for large service providers and when the internet became popular, I worked for a company called Verio that went and bought big regional ISPs. We converted them under one billing system, one engineering structure, and one call center. I noticed that a lot of people — especially some young engineers that I have had working for me — liked the model putting in a server and then creating some LANs and hooking up some storage. It was pretty easy and I was doing that all the way back in 2000. So I wanted to do something that was a little more forward-thinking. That is why I got into the hyper-converged infrastructure which posed some advantages.