without any involvement of IT. It is the duty of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to take necessary steps SO that they can remain in control of their organizations' technology goals while still providing the kinds of services that the business demands. SDS systems provide easy and cheap way to transform workloads (NexentaStor). Support of IT Goals While SDS systems are deployed as a part of a data centre i.e. software-defined data centre (SDDC) gives more flexibility to meet new workload needs as they arise. This is due to the elimination of storage as a discretely managed resource in the data-centre. Efficient Use of Existing Resources In present environment, IT services runs both, on-premises and in a cloud provider's data-centre, whereas SDS schematics structure have power to provide services off- premises and cloud-based storage as a part of single-data fabric for the organization. Another feature of SDS is that, without sacrificing IT priorities, SDS is able to push archived data to less expensive offsite storage for the improvement of overall cost equations. SDS also helps IT to integrate, more deeply, into the infrastructure enabling new automation opportunities. Faster Payback From IT New technologies like virtual desktop, data analytics and SO on, requires more power, capacity and are dependent on well-designed storage systems. With the development of SDS techniques, technicians do not have to carefully design, and manage storage Downloaded 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern University IP Address: 137.52.76.29 Software-Defined Storage for business needs. The capability to scale in a linear fashion for both capacity and performance ensures that the storage system won't be a roadblock to new endeavours. CHALLENGES It is a fact that every new technology, even with lot many benefits, also carry various challenges which cannot be ignored. Hence one cannot blindly favor software defined storage technology. There are various challenges to be resolved; some of them are listed below Legacy Data Storage One o