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Storage for containers and virtual environments

Virtualisation is fully mainstream now. For many organisations, most servers are virtual and often desktops are too. Meanwhile, a new form of virtualisation is emerging in the form of containers that offer a more lightweight and portable alternative to “traditional” virtualisation. Each method has key storage requirements, and in this e-guide we give you a complete run-through of the main choices in data storage for containers, look at the essentials of virtual servers storage, plus all you need to know about storage performance in virtual server and desktop environments.

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