Treat your open source storage infrastructure as a service
What if storage was like coffee: menu driven and truly service oriented? Everyone knows how quick and easy it is to order a cappuccino or cortado and have a friendly barista bring it to you in just minutes. Now imagine this is a user who needs some storage allocation. They browse a list of services, pick the one they like, and in no time at all a specialised operator responds to that request and provides allocated space, which the user’s application puts to work. They also take care of all of the Day-2 operations of the storage system!
Public clouds took this concept, called it ‘-as-a-service’ and ran with it, making access to compute, network and storage resources just a credit card transaction away. The convenience such a model offers is just half the benefit: the as-a-service model also frees companies from needing dedicated internal teams or expensive hiring.
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