2024-04-18
The focus on software should not by any means take away from the value of the hardware. No matter how wonderful and valuable storage software is, it still requires a solid base of hardware on which to run.
That hardware may be an industry-standard server, or a purpose-built appliance. Or it may be on purpose-built hardware stacked in a cloud provider’s data center. But it needs components: flash storage, SSDs, hard disk drives, memory. So for all the focus on software, hardware still counts.
