The 50 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the 2022 Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. Software is at the heart of storage.

Version 1.0.0 of CubeFS was released as open-source in March 2019. It entered the CNCF Sandbox in December 2019, moved to the Incubator in 2022, and graduated as a full CNCF project in January 2025.

A storage array is at its heart a commodity server integrated with an operating system dedicated specifically to providing storage services. Take away the server, and what's left? Software-defined ...

The term “software-defined” has been somewhat misused over the years, but was initially meant to represent storage systems that didn’t have a tight coupling between hardware and software. In effect, ...

Software-defined storage, in which storage array features are delivered by software products, is gaining popularity. It promises cost savings, because software-defined storage (SDS) is run on ...