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Software Defined Storage Networks™ An Introduction

While Software Defined Networking (SDN) has captured the attention and focus on virtualizing networks, Jeda Networks has applied the SDN approach to one of the last major areas of the IT infrastructure that has yet to be truly virtualized: the connection between applications and their data. We call this technology Software Defined Storage Networks (SDSN™). SDSNs virtualize the network between applications and their data, referred to as the storage network, by decoupling the complex storage networking control plane (the intelligence that tells the hardware what to do) from the physical network.

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Software Defined Storage Networks™ An Introduction