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Maziar Tamadon , Product & Solution Marketing , Scality the latest innovations . In this way , additional servers can be added or removed seamlessly , while the software layer automatically rebalances data and scales performance to match . As a result , the storage infrastructure can seamlessly scale for capacity or performance on demand , at the right time and with no fork-lift upgrades or data migrations to worry about . The added benefit is that hardware utilisation is optimised , dramatically reducing costs .

Another huge benefit a software-defined approach enables is programmatic automation , at all levels : deployment , management , maintenance and expansion . That paved the way for the rise of Kubernetesbased orchestration for containerised applications , bringing about the cloudnative trend that has been gaining so much momentum . Software-defined methodology is clearly one of the building block technologies at the core of the transformative way of thinking behind cloud-native concept , shifting the focus away from physical infrastructure and toward application-focused elements further up the stack and the data they rely on .

What ’ s more , with data being generated and consumed across various locations , at the edge , on-premises and in the cloud , it ’ s important to find a federated and unified data management solution that works seamlessly anywhere , accelerating access to data for sound business decisions and maximum return on investment and thereby ensuring agility . �

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DEFINED APPROACH IS CRITICAL IN ENABLING SMES TO SCALE THEIR STORAGE CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE ON DEMAND .