Storage Virtualisation
Flexible, Scalable Data Storage
As businesses grow and storage requirements spiral upward,
storage servers and arrays invariably proliferate throughout the organisation.
The presence of such disparate storage resources eventually becomes difficult to manage,
and this often leads to underutilised (even lost) storage.
In fact, it's common to see storage utilisation at only about 50% resulting in
wasted capital expenditures on new storage.
Storage virtualisation has emerged as an answer to this dilemma, allowing
storage administrators to identify, provision and manage disparate storage as a single
aggregated resource.
This is an important element of storage consolidation, easing management headaches
and allowing higher levels of storage utilisation, which in turn forestalls the
expense of added storage. Let's examine some of the key issues involved with
storage virtualisation.
What is Storage Virtualisation?
Storage Virtualisation is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage
devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is
managed from a central console. Storage virtualisation is commonly used in a
storage area network (SAN).
The management of storage devices can be tedious
and time-consuming. Storage virtualisation helps the storage administrator
perform the tasks of backup, archiving, and recovery more easily, and in less time,
by disguising the actual complexity of the SAN.
Listed are just a few of the market leaders in Data Storage for your network environment
LeftHand Networks
LeftHand Networks' next generation SANs provide superior data availability, scalable performance, and a best-in-class storage management feature set.
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Dot Hill
Dot Hill is the market leader in providing flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and System Integrators, from engagement through end-of-life.
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StoreAge SVM
StoreAge SVM (Storage Virtualisation Manager) is a SAN appliance that provides virtual volume management in heterogeneous environments
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