User talk:Clausegge

Interesting that the people who pioneered the space take portability so seriously and the analysts are so eager to allow the hardware and device dependent storage vendors repeat the history of what happened in storage virtualization. In the late 1990s, when storage virtualization first came out, the pioneers like DataCore Software and Falconstor touted portable software that emulated the key functions of a storage controller in a portable fashion that could run on popular versus a vendor dependit server platform and enabled hardware interchangability. Then what happened is the industry analyst who were often sponsored by the large vendors worked hard to undermine the original definitions and then it became a free where anyone selling any type of RAID or storage array started to claim they were storage virtualization. The entry on Wikipedia and the definition were well crafted and added to Wikipedia last summer and this summer after the term gets some momentum, the analyst community is doing it all over again. Its very clear that the traditional storage hardware and array vendors like IBM, EMC, HDS, HP, etc for instance would like to make sure that a storage hypervisor does not encompass the 'portable' and device independence definition, otherwise they can't define themselves as storage hypervisors. Let me make it real clear - a storage hypevisor is software. That means you can download it! If they have to ship you hardware it is not a storage hypervisor. If it can't run on a Intel/AMD server, a Dell, HP, IBM, whitebox server or on a VM it is not 'portable' and it is device specific and therefore not a storage hypervisor. If the storage is defined as being the storage that works exclusively within the confines of a 'box' or array that means it is not a storage hypervisor. Bottomline, storage devices will 'come and go' and a storage hypervisor like VMware or Hyper-V are divorced from the device choices which can be SSDs, interanl server disks, any vendor array and even Cloud storage.