There is a lot of talk about virtualization these days. Server virtualization, hardware virtualization, application virtualization and also storage virtualization.
What is storage virtualization? Storage Virtualization involves the pooling of storage resources of similar or different capability to create and present logical subsets of that storage to devices such as servers.
There are several different types of [...]
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What is Storage Virtualization
Networking
LAN – Local Area Network
A Local Area Network is a computer network that is limited to a small geographic area. In most cases Local Area Networks are constructed of customer owned equipment and do not use network Internet Service Providers. Normally LAN networks are high speed Ethernet networks.
The network may be within a single room or several [...]
Virtualization
What is Virtualization? In Information Technology (IT) virtualization generally means the abstraction of a resource or hardware device. There are many different types of virtualization including:
Hardware virtualization
Application virtualization
Storage virtualization
Hardware Virtualization- the process of abstracting a physical device in order to present a new logical group of resources. The most common implementation of this type is [...]

