Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 6): High Availability

By Mike Richardson, on October 23rd, 2011

In the final part of this Storage Virtualization Series, I’ll be discussing the High Availability (HA) capabilities of each of the products.  This section will be most important to customers who prize maximum uptime above all other considerations—even storage efficiency. 

This post will be broken down into several key HA areas.

Redundancy: Can . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 6): High Availability

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Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 5): Data Protection

By Mike Richardson, on October 22nd, 2011

In this part of the Storage Virtualization Showdown series I will focus on Data Protection Capabilities between the 4 platforms.  As datasets grow larger and become more difficult to protect and recover with traditional backup means, organizations will need to increasingly deploy array-based data protection.  Array-based data protection, when implemented as part of a . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 5): Data Protection

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Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 4): Storage Efficiency

By Mike Richardson, on October 18th, 2011

In this part of the Storage Virtualization Showdown series, I’ll be focusing on Storage Efficiency.  A successful storage virtualization implementation will not only enable the management and simplified movement of storage between external arrays, but also provide a robust set of capabilities that actually maximize the utilization of the back-end equipment.

I’ll be breaking . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 4): Storage Efficiency

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Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 2): Architecture Overview

By Mike Richardson, on October 3rd, 2011

This post is part of a series comparing leading storage virtualization solutions.  In this post I’ll review the architecture of each platform and discuss pros and cons in relation to how they are managed.  The architecture plays a big part in all areas of this series, so the concepts discussed here will be carried . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 2): Architecture Overview

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Storage Virtualization Showdown (NetApp, IBM, EMC and HDS)

By Mike Richardson, on September 26th, 2011

Storage virtualization isn’t new, it has been around in one form or another since the invention of the filesystem.  The focus of this series, however is on storage virtualization within the SAN fabric.  The primary requirement for a vendor to be included in this “showdown” is the ability to virtualize 3rd party storage systems.  . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (NetApp, IBM, EMC and HDS)

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