The technological advancements in modern times are so rapid that the industries require employees to learn additional skills every day. With terms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Big Data and other new disruptive technologies gaining momentum across verticals, it is often difficult to keep track. While these technologies develop the data, it also results in additional cost for enterprises to expand storage solutions to accommodate this data. This can be costly, inefficient and increasingly complex. As an alternate solution, software-defined storage enables enterprises to procure heterogeneous storage hardware without having to worry about concerns such as interoperability, under- or over-utilization of specific storage resources, and manual oversight of storage resource. On the contrary, founded in 2005, Nexenta Systems, a software company has pioneered to provide cost efficient storage software solutions that are hardware, protocol, and app-agnostic allowing unparalleled flexibility. The company’s contribution to the open source driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) is a 100 percent software solution eliminating sales schemes, vendor lock-in business models, and delivery practices generally used by legacy system vendors.