Building on the trend toward Software-Defined everything, Bob Hammer, CEO of Commvault, is promoting a vision Software-Defined Data Services that may ultimately disrupt of one of the most stable areas of enterprise computing, persistent storage. While this sounds like just another acronym, if you dig in a bit, what Hammer is proposing is a new way for companies to organize their information, one that fits neatly into the points made by the concept of the data lake, the scale-out storage of HDFS, and the theory of technology evolution proposed by Ray Kurzweil, the legendary inventor and futurist.

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