From a marketing perspective, virtualization is one of the most liberally used terms in the storage industry - it is defined differently by different manufacturers. A recent trend from many manufacturers, offering virtualization architectures, is to position their products as network storage infrastructures based on virtualization technology. Fundamentally, virtualization can be defined as creating a logical representation of physical devices, a so-called abstraction layer. One of the main benefits of virtualization is increased management efficiency because all storage capacity is managed by one common interface.
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