So I’ve virtualized the server, the application (through grid), now it’s time to virtualize my storage.
What do I mean? Well there’s movement towards virtualizing your storage, take your free space on the servers, your emc san, any filer space etc, and make it universally available as one large volume to a server/application or the end user.
Check out:Â
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_storage or this very good article on zdnet: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,2111098,00.htm
http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/Â - has some good tutorials, and http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3376011Â
talks about it at length.
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