Within the context of a storage system, there are two primary types of virtualization that can occur: Block virtualization used in this context refers...

computer. In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words...

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the...

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...

performance degradation. Storage virtualization is the process of abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The physical storage resources are aggregated...

components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for...

underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages...

software and hardware appliance company specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage. StarWind Software began in 2008 as a spin-off from...

inexpensive disks" or "redundant array of independent disks") is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components...

hard disk drives. Server virtualization, or Full virtualization, partitions a single physical server into multiple virtual machines, consolidating multiple...

A virtual tape library (VTL) is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component...

metadata updates, handling of very long paths and filenames, and storage virtualization and pooling, including almost arbitrarily sized logical volumes...

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) is an IBM direct-access storage device (DASD) file storage access method, first used in the OS/VS1, OS/VS2 Release...

behaviour seen in traditional disks or tape storage through storage virtualization. Blocks are identified by an arbitrary and assigned identifier by which...

attached storage (NAS) arrays Storage area network (SAN) arrays: Modular SAN arrays Monolithic SAN arrays Utility Storage Arrays Storage virtualization Primary...

times, underscoring the primary advantage of data virtualization. However, with data virtualization, the connection to all necessary data sources must...

more flexibility and better abstraction are increasingly needed. Storage virtualization Buyya, Rajkumar; Broberg, James; Goscinski, Andrzej M. (2010). Cloud...

A virtual storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). A VSAN abstracts the storage-related...

a data storage management-related category. The term is used interchangeably with NAS virtualization and file virtualization among data storage industry...

hardware-assisted virtualization, with virtualization-specific hardware features on the host CPUs providing assistance to hypervisors. Process virtual machines...

multiplexing Storage hypervisor Storage virtualization Fractional-reserve banking Mike Laverick. "Thin provisioning myth-busters: The benefits of thin virtual disks"...

a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Network virtualization is categorized...

deep to extend the functions of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform to multivendor storage through virtualization. Offload less-critical data to external...

Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now termed user virtualization, to...

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs...

full virtualization, managed with a web-based user interface similar to other commercial offerings. Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization platform...

large businesses. The company also offers cloud-based or on-premises storage, virtual data rooms and client portals. ShareFile is owned by Citrix Systems...

software for virtualization, Kubernetes, database-as-a-service, software-defined networking, security, as well as software-defined storage for file, object...

has several uses including as primary storage. In addition to usually being faster than forms of mass storage such as a hard disk drive, volatility can...