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** Parallel [[Network File System|NFS]] (pNFS), a specific implementation which evolved within the NFS community but has expanded to many implementations.

** [[OpenStack]] and its Swift, [[Ceph (software)|Ceph]] and Cinder APIs for storage interaction, which have been applied{{by whom|date=August 2014}} to open-source projects as well as to vendor products.

** A number of Object Storage platforms are also examples of software-defined storage implementations examples of this are [[Scality]] RING, [[Cloudian]] HyperStore, and the open source swift project.

** Number of distributed storage solutions like [[Gluster]] for [[clustered file system]] or simplyblock for [[distributed block storage]] are good examples of software defined storage.

* Automation with policy-driven storage provisioning with [[service-level agreement]]s replacing technology details. This requires management interfaces that span traditional storage-array products, as a particular definition of separating "control plane" from "data plane", in the spirit of [[OpenFlow]]. Prior industry standardization efforts included the [[Storage Management Initiative – Specification]] (SMI-S) which began in 2000.