block storage-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 24, 2021/ Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Software-defined storage, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBlock storage is an approach to data storage in which each storage volume acts as an individual hard drive that is configured by the storage administrator. In the block storage model, data is saved to the storage media in fixed-sized chunks called blocks. Each block is associated with a unique address, and the address is the only metadata assigned to each block. 

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storage virtualization-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays, Software-defined storage, Storage virtualization, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesStorage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device — or pool of available storage capacity — that is managed from a central console. The technology relies on software to identify available storage capacity from physical devices and to then aggregate that capacity as a pool of storage

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