Mennonite Mutual Aid uses storage virtualization to ensure cost-effective business continuity
Mennonite Mutual Aid successfully transitioned from a sprawling Windows and IBM server environment with direct-attached storage to a tiered, virtual infrastructure with a remote disaster recovery (DR) site. It accomplished this by working with its partner, MapleTronics Computers, to implement FalconStor Software's and Network Storage Server (NSS) and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) plus VMware.
Virtualizing storage
Storage virtualization is really nothing more than taking multiple storage devices, and abstracting them so that the end user can more easily manage a larger amount of storage without having to deal with the complexities of multiple devices. Storage from multiple devices are combined and appear as a single resource.
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