Can someone virtualize my storage please

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/12/07FEvirtualstor_1.html

After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes.

Storage virtualization creates an abstraction layer between host and physical storage that masks the idiosyncrasies of individual storage devices. When implemented in a SAN, it provides a single management point for all block-level storage. To put it simply, storage virtualization pools physical storage from multiple, heterogeneous network storage devices and presents a set of virtual storage volumes for hosts to use.

Virtualization of the storage is the next trick, where we want to go. the ability to pool storage from multiple hosts, to be able to remove the proprietary storage drivers, software, to a model like the netapps filer, where I say, I need an extra 500GB, configure it, next, typically it becomes a long term process to cut storage making sure the disk rig has the right sized disks, the right volumes in metas etc, particularly if the storage is replicated - that becomes no longer a process of storage cutting, but an ongoing saga, (from the end user perspective anyway, I can get a drive and plug it in from pcworld, I here them cry).