Storage virtualization — refers to the process of abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The term is today used to describe this abstraction at any layer in the storage software and hardware stack.Key conceptsAddress space remappingVirtualization of storage… … Wikipedia
Storage virtualization - Specific Implemenations — Specific Implementations=* DataCore Software Corporation (Software based) * EMC Corporation (Software and Hardware based solutions) * Falconstor (Software based) * Gresham Enterprise Storage [http://www.greshamstorage.com] (Software and Hardware… … Wikipedia
Virtualization — In computing, virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources:* Platform virtualization, which separates an operating system from the underlying platform resources ** Full virtualization ** Hardware assisted… … Wikipedia
Storage area network — Not to be confused with Network attached storage. Computer network types by geographical scope Body (BAN) Personal (PAN) Near me (NAN) Local (LAN) Home (HAN) Storage (SAN) Campus (CAN) Backbone Metropolitan (MAN) Wide (WAN) … Wikipedia
Virtualization engine — In computing, a virtualization engine is the concept of giving a holistic view of all the resources in the entire network infrastructure. The holistic view is independent of the physical data storage devices and their geographic location.A good… … Wikipedia
Storage-Hypervisor — Ein Storage Hypervisor ist in der Informationstechnologie ein auf unterschiedliche Hardware übertragbares und anwendbares Computerprogramm mit umfassenden Speichermanagementfunktionen, das heterogene Speicherkapazitäten in einem virtuellen Pool… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Virtualization infrastructure — broadly describes the separation between resource or request for service from the physical delivery of that service or resource. On a computer virtual memory gains access to additional memory other than the physical computer memory installed on… … Wikipedia
Storage Management Initiative - Specification — SMI S, or the Storage Management Initiative Specification, is a storage standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It has also been ratified as ANSI standard… … Wikipedia
Memory virtualization — In computer science, memory virtualization decouples volatile random access memory (RAM) resources from individual systems in the data center, and then aggregates those resources into a virtualized memory pool available to any computer in the… … Wikipedia
File Virtualization — In computing, file virtualization is a field of storage virtualization operating on computer file level. It involves uniting multiple storage devices into a single logical pool of files. It is a vital part of both file area network (FAN) and… … Wikipedia
IBM System Storage — (formerly IBM TotalStorage) is the brand name for IBM s computer storage products, covering both Disk and Tape products. Disk SystemsCurrent Disk SystemsDS3000 SeriesThe DS3000 products are made for IBM by LSI * DS3200 ** 3Gbit SAS single or dual … Wikipedia