Just what is Storage Virtualization?

The concept of storage virtualization is a hot topic. With so many vendors presenting their spin on the technology to put their products’ best foot forward, the true meaning of virtualization is misunderstood by many.

Storage virtualization is the aggregation of multiple physical storage devices of various interface protocols into a single storage pool. From this pool the creation and provisioning of storage volumes, appearing as locally attached logical devices to their host server, can be performed as needed and when needed from a centralized console. An advanced virtualization solution provides IT administrators the freedom of choice to provision the available storage in the virtual pool as SAN and/or NAS volumes.

The benefit to you is that it takes fewer hands and eyes to accomplish ongoing maintenance and support, which lowers costs and increases efficiencies.

TOSS^® offers leading-edge storage virtualization solutions that enable and facilitate efficient allocation of storage resources, ease of management, fast data access, use of heterogeneous storage, and also work in conjunction with features such as backup, mirroring, and replication to ensure business continuity. How do we do all this? We work with several of the world leaders in storage virtualization solutions and have become a premier worldwide provider of their technologies.

Our storage specialists are highly experienced, certified engineers who have worked in a consulting and implementation capacity for EMC, Falconstor, and Hitachi Data Systems. Quite simply, the TOSS^® engineering team is a cut above the rest.

For more information on storage virtualization, Contact TOSS^® to speak with our storage engineering group and schedule a free consultation.