Chris Poelker’s Blog

I have been seeing a lot of interest lately by many large companies in leveraging virtualization to reduce costs. Many have adopted hardware solutions on the compute side such as Domain based systems from Sun and HP, LPAR based systems from IBM such as the pSeries or Linux on the Mainframe, or software based solutions such as Citrix and VMware. What has been lacking is a viable low cost virtualization solution for the storage side. Well, fear not, it’s here. I think we have pulled the virtual rabbit out of the hat, and I would like feedback and opinions on something I think is pretty cool. (more…)