In a series of articles, I am going to share my thoughts on the state of IT infrastructure and how we’ve arrived with current architecture trends. The topic today is SAN.
Storage Area Networking (SAN) is a technology that solved a real problem that existed a couple decades ago. SANs have been a foundational piece of IT infrastructure architecture for a long time and have helped drive major innovations in storage. But how relevant are SANs today in the age of software-defined datacenters? Let’s talk about how we have arrived at modern storage architecture.