Virtualization Essentials

Understanding Storage Virtualization

Data storage is an ever-expanding resource. You only need to examine your personal environment over the past five to ten years to understand how necessary and pervasive data storage has become. Everything from refrigerators to automobiles now contains some amount of data storage. New appliances like GPSs (Geographic Positioning Systems) or DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) have become part of our daily routines, adding to the amount of data storage we consume. Computing devices like PCs, smart phones, music players, and tablets, have experienced storage growth as each new generation of the devices appear. The same holds true in the traditional corporate data center where the amount of data being handled and stored ...