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How does storage virtualization ease storage management?
Learn how storage virtualization eases storage management by providing a consistent interface for all storage applications.

How do storage virtualization offerings differ?
There are numerous players in the storage virtualization market today, but I can categorize them as in-band vendors (typically appliances), out-of-band vendors and Split Path Architecture for Intelligent Devices (SPAID)...

Is the market ready for storage virtualization? Are the products ready?
The short answer is that the products are absolutely ready. It's taken three or four years to bring the products to this current level of maturity, but I can say that key products from the major players are all ready...

Does storage virtualization impair storage performance or add network overhead to the SAN? If so, how can any potential effects be mitigated?
You're adding a layer of abstraction between physical storage and the infrastructure up above, including switches and servers...


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