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Abend

Informal; to end a project or process prematurely. This term is used especially in computer-related projects. It is a portmanteau of "abnormal end."

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Block storage virtualization utilizes an intelligent hardware platform that is either embedded directly into the storage network or sits between virtualized storage and the SAN.

The split-path architecture: built for enterprise class virtualization

Virtualization can benefit insurance IT departments through:

A new frontier: virtualization is beginning to find its place in the insurance industry

All of these data and stories are collected in this research report, to provide end user organizations and software vendors with a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research into real world experiences of endpoint virtualization.

Research and Markets: Real World Experiences of Endpoint Virtualization - Catch-All Term for a Range of Technologies

For a first-hand perspective on how to prepare for and overcome challenges with application virtualization, I turned to Ray Leitz, CTO of AcXess, a business continuity provider for SMEs.

Real world virtualization: realizing the business benefits of application and server virtualization; Dealing with virtualization challenges

It is based on new empirical research - including an extensive survey, focal interviews, and case studies - into virtualization and the IT management implications of virtualization technologies.

New Research Report into Virtualization Analyzes Past Trends in the Market and Makes Projections to 2010

These file virtualization switches use industry standard CIFS and NFS protocols to virtualize existing heterogeneous file systems.

NAS virtualization simplifies file storage management

Focusing on server, operating system, application, and desktop virtualization, this Advisory Note outlines the top ten questions that every enterprise should ask in order to determine if virtualization is right for them.

New Study Describes the Ten Questions Every Business Should Ask When Considering Virtualization

The initial deployments of intelligent switches during the first half of 2006 will support virtualization services, where the switch's intelligence (read: deep packet inspection and operation) will be used to perform virtual disk address to physical disk address translations in addition to supporting RAID (mirroring, striping) features at the array-level.

Intelligent switches--moving beyond virtualization

But virtualization can be applied to all IT resources from servers to storage to networks to desktops and is not one-size-fits-all.

Through to 2010, Server Virtualization Will Have the Single Largest Impact on Budgets for IT Hardware and Support

OS-level Virtualization and Always Available Configurations: OS-level virtualization can be a crucial part of an always available disaster recovery solution.

Disaster recovery for the masses: the role of OS-level server virtualization in disaster recovery

Along with HP-UX 11i v3, the two new servers deliver mission-critical virtualization on a standards-based platform to help create an Adaptive Infrastructure in any enterprise.

HP Eases Deployment of UNIX Virtualization with Newest HP-UX Operating System, HP Integrity Servers

As an example, we can't help but see the marketing of in-band storage virtualization solutions to small environments (as small as 2TB) as failing this test.