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Reason #3 That You Need File Virtualization. If you’re just joining this series, check out Reason #1 and Reason #2 That You Need File Virtualization Tiering is the one benefit that a sales person will tell you about, so I was putting it off a bit, but it is the one thing I’ve had requests for, and it’s a benefit most enterprises can relate to. I’ll tell you up-front that even though it does offer a huge savings, for reasons I’ll mention below, this isn’t one of the big drivers for me – I knew about the benefits of tiering before I decided that File Virtualization... posted @ Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Virtualized Storage - Cleaning up invisibly. Last week while Joe and I were at our Lowell offices (formerly Acopia, now known as the F5 Data Solutions group), I learned a lot that I didn't previously know about our ARX directory-level virtualization product. Now I'm not new to the storage space, and indeed, had looked at Acopia briefly when I was the storage editor at Network Computing, but there was so much going on in storage at the time that I never got around to covering them directly. All things considered, I hoped to get a handle on how specifically we did what all storage virtualization products... posted @ Monday, September 15, 2008 10:57 AM | Feedback (0)