Cisco virtualizes the interface between the SAN and provides the VMware environment (DIA)
Cisco will collaborate with VMware to optimize the integration of its MDS (Multilayer DataCenter Switch) to SAN (Storage Area Network) in the virtual environment called Second VDC-OS (Virtual Datacenter OS).
HttpDisk: Mount a virtual disk or a CD via a HTTP web server
Many remote backup solutions, with the emergence of virtualization solutions has been seen more or less practical ... Virtualization (storage) is generally aimed at professionals in the archive, where the solutions based on costly the level of security, support, network transfer ...
What about usability?
gDisk 0.6.1
Released in November 2006, became the gDisk Mac OS X GMailDrive. gDisk you can use the unused disk space on your Gmail account as storage space on the Internet.
Gmail Drive, a true virtual hard disk for your backups small
Utility widely known, came shortly after the creation of Google Mail, Gmail Drive has undergone some fixes. Today we'll use Windows Vista 32-bit to show you how easy it is to use disk space to Google Mail as a regular hard drive.
Dropbox: online storage for all systems simplified
Dropbox is a service which recently opened, and who intends to come in the flowerbeds of Mobile Me from Apple, or SkyDrive and Live Mesh Microsoft side. Simplified installation and availability on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are two strengths that could make the service popular quickly.
Orange in turn launches its virtual hard disk (NetEco.com)
Following the launch of a virtual hard disk by Alice and Agematis is the turn of its rival Orange announce a similar offer called "My Data". An offer that is different, however, being free (as against 5 € / month for Alice) but does not propose a first step, a storage space of 2 to 4 GB expandable in August in exchange 10GB an additional fee of 3 € per month.
Storage: the virtual hard disk could pay big to Google
According to experts and if the rumor is confirmed, the launch of a virtual hard disk would allow Google to achieve higher margins than those providers such as physical disk drives Seagate Technology. iSuppli indeed believe that launching such a service would certainly be very useful for consumers, but also very lucrative for the search engine.
Online storage: the Google Drive resurfaced
After the Google OS, the old sea serpent of online storage service that Google is preparing to resurface, this time under the pen of the very serious Wall Street Journal. Which is to say that Google would prepare "a service allowing users to store their servers on almost all the files they store on their hard drives - including word processing files, music tracks, video clips and images "(formerly an offer called" My Stuff "internally).
GDrive: a virtual hard disk signed Google? (NetEco.com)
After creating the event by offering for the first time a storage capacity of 1 Giga byte to his webmail Gmail, Google would work on the development of a virtual hard disk, called GDrive, that can store an unlimited data Internet. The information is still unofficial but was mentioned by the chief financial officer of Google, during a presentation to analysts and investors.
