Every 3 years,technology vendors cook up a new marketing hype to
sell their products to gullible clients.In this context,server
virtualization is the latest buzzword to hit the data storage
industry.
Today, every data storage product in the market, such as network
routers,storage area networks and network attached storage are
sold by IT vendors under the guise of 'server virtualization'.
Indeed,server virtualization seems to be the cure all to all
data storage problems, global war, terrorism and probably even
AIDS.
In a recent interview, Gary, editor of the data storage
portal,
data-recovery-reviews
.com rubbished the whole concept of
data storage server virtualization
To the layman, server virtualization is simply a set of tools to
serve as layer between logical and physical storage. Server
virtualization promises a great deal - data storage vendor
neutral products in data centers and easy server
consolidation.This means that CIOs no longer need to worry about
buying all their data storage products from a single vendor.
Gary mentioned that server virtualization in the form of vendor
neutral data storage is definitely what every IT data center
needs,but no data storage company is bound to offer server
virtualization since it would mean that their proprietory
products could then be replaced at any time with a competitor's
data storage product.
The CIO of a mid size pharmaceutical company, Mike Fisher,
recently remarked that it is amazing how each and every data
storage product claims to support server virtualization but does
not offer product compatibility with products from other vendors.
Gary's
survey of data
storage products suggests that data storage vendors are
least interested in saving client costs by providing server
virtualization data storage products in data centers.
Gary accepts that
Vm
ware's server virtualization products come closest to the
real promise of server virtualization in terms of data center
data storage technology,but there is still a long way to go to
achieve true server consolidation and server virtualization.
In conclusion,server virtualization is just another marketing
hype that is being touted by technology vendors. Haven't
corporate clients heard of vaporware before?
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Ref: 1)
Server virtualization reviews 2)
Vmware Reviews
About the author:
Gary is a freelance data storage consultant for Fortune 500
companies and helped set up data centers, network security and
data storage policies for over 20 Fortune 500 technology setups.
