Does it run in VMs, containers, systems running external code? Just. Patch. It
By Chris Mellor 17 Jan 2018 Analysis A growing consensus among storage hardware appliance vendors is that, since they don't run external software on their hardware, they don't need to stick performance-hindering patches into their operating systems.
Software-defined storage (SDS) and hyperconverged systems vendors do, consultants claim, because they can run external, customer-supplied software on the same hardware as their software.
For example, a user viewpoint from Martin Glassborow:
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