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- Document Category: Other
- Subject: Virtualization
- Vendors: Microsoft, VMware
- Keywords: data center, Virtualization
- Document Date: September 30th, 2009
- Author: Russ Fellows
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Short Description:
Discussion on Virtualization, Storage Virtualization and the necessity for Data Center Transformation. Highlights of various architectures
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Full Summary:
The modern data center will run in a virtual environment, composed entirely of virtualized computing, networking and storage elements.
The concept of virtualization is nearly as old as computing itself. It has been applied with various degrees of success to computer memory access, processing, storage and networking. At its most fundamental level, virtualization does exist within all of these elements.
However, virtualization is now beginning to be made visible at an external level. Rather than being a tool used to accomplish a goal for the engineers designing a product, virtualization is now being used to transform the major elements of Information technology. The three core elements of IT are compute, network and storage.
This paper discusses the reasons and concepts for Storage Virtualization for the Data Center Transformation.
For more information, see Russ Fellows presentation on “Data Center Transformation” under free resources.
Virtualization — the Foundation for Data Center Transformation
The modern data center will run in a virtual environment, composed entirely of virtualized computing, networking and storage elements.
The concept of virtualization is nearly as old as computing itself. It has been applied with various degrees of success to computer memory access, processing, storage and networking. At its most fundamental level, virtualization does exist within all of these elements.
However, virtualization is now beginning to be made visible at an external level. Rather than being a tool used to accomplish a goal for the engineers designing a product, virtualization is now being used to transform the major elements of Information technology. The three core elements of IT are compute, network and storage.
This paper discusses the reasons and concepts for Storage Virtualization for the Data Center Transformation.
For more information, see Russ Fellows presentation on “Data Center Transformation” under free resources.