{"id":654135,"date":"2013-04-24T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=633876"},"modified":"2013-04-24T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:00:03","slug":"jeda-networks-promises-software-defined-storage-controller-to-come-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654135","title":{"rendered":"Jeda Networks promises software-defined storage controller to come soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeda Networks, a startup that’s talked about<\/a> its intention to provide software for virtualizing storage networks, is a few steps closer to delivering on its vision. The company<\/a>\u00a0 said Wednesday it will start offering its Fabric Network Controller in an early-ship program next month and make it generally available over the summer.<\/p>\n

As is the case with software-defined networks, the Jeda controller software will separate the control plane from from the data plane. It will run on a virtualized server and take charge of the intelligence that would otherwise reside on a switch. SDN can have a wide range of benefits, although it generally can permit more programmability and elasticity of networks. For Jeda, virtualizing storage-area networks could allow customers to generate and disable those networks in response to changes in demand.<\/p>\n

Other companies other than Newport Beach, Calif.-based Jeda are likewise looking to make software-defined storage a reality, including Convergent.io<\/a>, ScaleIO<\/a> and SwiftStack<\/a>. Approaches differ among those entities, but they share the goal of bringing storage up to the level of programmability of compute resources and, increasingly, networks.<\/p>\n

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