Towards Data-driven Software-Defined Infrastructures

The abundance of computing technologies and devices imply that we will live in a data-driven society in the next years. But this data-driven society requires radically new technologies in the data center to deal with data manipulation, transformation, access control, sharing and placement, among others. We advocate in this paper for a new generation of Software Defined Data Management Infrastructures covering the entire life-cycle of data. On the one hand, this will require new extensible programming abstractions and services for data-management in the data center. On the other hand, this also implies opening up the control plane to data owners outside the data center to manage the data life cycle. We present in this article the open challenges existing in data-driven software defined infrastructures and a use case based on Software Defined Protection of data. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.