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Video Tutorial: Windows Data Migration Made Easy with Virtualization
Klavs Landberg, Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), AutoVirt, Inc. – A visionary software architect and innovator, Klavs Landberg has enjoyed over 30 years of successful engineering and product development experience, with particular expertise in networking, operating, file systems, and data storage.
File Virtualization Evolving
Posted by Klavs on Thu, Nov 05, 2009 @ 10:25 AM
A File Virtualization How-To
File virtualization can be inserted transparently, meaning that all pre-virtualization shortcuts and embedded links continue to work without change. Failure to provide transparent insertion killed NuView StorageX (acquired by Brocade and pitched as a File Area Network (FAN)).
File virtualization can provide scalable performance. Limited scalability killed NeoPath and Attune. EMC/Rainfinity is stubbornly still around, but has not been widely adopted.
File virtualization can offer integrated data management. Lack of data management functionality, and the manual effort required for namespace creation and insertion, has doomed widespread use of DFS from Microsoft. If it is free, why not use it? Why indeed.
File virtualization can offer support for existing IT practices like server-based backup and restore, snapshots, and scripted procedures that work directly with networked file devices. It is still unclear how important compatibility is to file virtualization adopters. Despite its incompatibility with existing infrastructure, ARX from F5/Acopia continues to win customers.
The Next Stage in File Virtualization
With sincere apologies to Mark Twain, reports of the death of file virtualization are greatly exaggerated. File virtualization is alive and well. The out-of-band solution from AutoVirt passes all four tests and more with flying colors. With apologies to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: stay tuned, we are making hot fudge on a cosmic scale.
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