Storage Virtualization Technology Why is the heat so high today?

Storage virtualization Technology A very hot topic in the society today. But when we use it, we need to know the technology quite well. The following is a detailed introduction to the storage virtualization technology. Storage virtualization Technology is a broad term, refers to the computational components on the basis of virtual operation, is to simplify IT management, optimize the resources of a solution.

Storage virtualization technology has a long history, as early as the 60 's, the American computer academia began the development of virtual technology, and then applied to the commercial market. Virtualization technology was initially applied to mainframe, and then evolved further: from desktop storage virtualization technology to server virtualization to software and hardware virtualization. It can be said that the 70 's is the mainframe era, the 80 is the customer server era, the 90 generation is the network age, and now is the virtual era. The whole evolution process of storage virtualization technology is the true portrayal of it informatization development.

Why is the heat so high today?

The recent years storage virtualization technology has been the hottest topic in the IT world. People's attention to virtualization technology is so high, there are multiple reasons, in addition to the development of technology itself, the most important thing is the rapid changes in the external environment faced by enterprises.

As we all know, as the impact of the financial crisis swept around the world, how to winter has become the focus of the company's attention. The world has chosen the path of cost savings in an unprecedented and consistent manner, which accelerates the need for storage virtualization technologies.

Secondly, the energy consumption caused by the global power crisis has led to the worldwide green it revolution, and virtualization is the most important foundation for the realization of green it.

In addition, enterprises from the perspective of risk control, globalization brings the enterprise 365 days 7*24 hours of operating environment, so that it operations rise to unprecedented heights, and disaster preparedness of nature to be taken seriously. One of the most important core of disaster preparedness is to ensure business continuity, the implementation of this technology is virtualization.

In the past, enterprise IT construction in the infrastructure, and now pay more attention to flexible dynamic architecture, this is inseparable from the support of virtualization technology. Today, virtualization technology is so closely related to simplifying IT management, improving business performance is inseparable, to help enterprises focus on sharing resources, reduce costs, optimize utilization, virtualization technology is the enterprise's choice.

The age of Happy enclosure

Despite the expansion of server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization, desktop virtualization, and Application virtualization, the technology is currently in the age of happy enclosure. Currently, there are three storage virtualization technologies that affect the operating system, IBM, Microsoft, and VMware. VMware application is more mature, IBM advantage is obvious, Microsoft belongs to full force.

But from the whole big IT development direction, along with the cloud computing, SaaS and other new applications popularization, the future it's development center of gravity must be in the Internet, but its foundation depends on the data center advanced degree, can not be separated from the server.

The current pattern of the server market is somewhat mysterious. IBM, SUN, HP, Daleyun are strong in this area. Among the four major vendors, IBM is known for its IT services, and Sun has a significant advantage in high-end server areas. HP, Dell's user base is different from the top two. But the four share of the shares up to 90%, many two or three-stream small vendors to eat the remaining 10% of the cake. From the development of network applications, no matter which server in the future must compete for the commanding heights of dynamic infrastructure. One of the characteristics of a dynamic architecture is the real-time data migration. That is, to move a running virtual machine quickly from one physical host to another without interrupting any service or shutting down. For enterprise users, this means a high degree of flexibility, reduced maintenance costs, and increased productivity. But to implement such a technology requires hardware changes that require support from the processor side.

Recently, AMD released a batch of video and photos, for the first time to show the three generations of Opteron processor virtual Server dynamic migration. Thanks to its superior performance, Microsoft has added optimized support for AMD-V storage virtualization technology and fast virtual indexing technology (RVI) in the new generation of virtualized core platforms----Hyper-V, IBM, SUN, HP, Dell's four major server OEM vendors have adopted AMD's storage virtualization technology solution.

Due to Microsoft's market impact, its next generation of storage virtualization technology will drive the hardware and operating system Architecture update, in turn, driving the semiconductor market pattern changed. In this fast-changing process, who has the opportunity to seize the initiative? The author notes that AMD, with its consistent technical service advantages and the excellent brand it has created, has continued its strong momentum of development and leadership in the field of storage virtualization technology. Observing the development path of the company, AMD, with its aggressive offensive, has fully occupied the favorable terrain in the field of virtualization technology, which has consistently focused on product development and innovation around user needs. A technical understanding is that storage virtualization technology is the ultimate path to cloud computing, the cloud is still a little misty, but the AMD force in the virtualization, showing a keen sense of technology and the long-term vision of the brand. In advocating speed today, AMD's move will undoubtedly win more market opportunities for its future.

It can be asserted that, in the era of horse-racing, the processor battle is bound to show more complex changes in storage virtualization technology.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)