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Clustered Storage vs. Storage Virtualisation: …Is there a winner?

posted on 13 June 2008 16:12

For UK's Storage Expo 2008

By Philip Crocker, Director of EMEA Marketing, Isilon Systems.

Many organisations are facing a tremendous increase in the amounts of data needed to conduct everyday business. The growth of unstructured data such as video, audio, image, research data, and other large digital files is pushing the bounds of traditional storage systems. Into the breach come Clustered Storage and Storage Virtualisation to potentially offer solutions to help meet the challenge of larger data storage requirements.

What are the pros and cons of each? Download the PDF below to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. You can explore the ideas expressed in the document more at the UK's Storage Expo 2008.

Download file: Isilon - Clustered vs Virtualisation-1.pdf

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