Optimal Storage Virtualization — The Key To Effective Information Management

By Rob Peglar Vice President, Technology Xiotech Corporation

Xiotech's optimal storage virtualization technology stripes data across all available spindles or multiple ISE, utilizing all storage capacity in a system. This effectively removes the limitations imposed by fixed RAID groups, both in direct-attached and traditional storage array technology.

The virtualization process is transparent; you simply see a storage pool in several tiers that you can immediately allocate to servers as needed. You are removed from managing the physical aspects of the storage media and RAID groups, and can instead manage the overall storage pool.

By striping data across all available disk drives or multiple ISE, Xiotech allows you to perform nearly all storage management tasks quickly and easily from a central console without bringing servers or switches down. Most tasks take only seconds and a few key strokes. Optimal storage virtualization and Xiotech's easy-touse interface make it all possible.