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The Top Ten Byte and Switch SAN Stories: Page 4 of 14

What it is: management technology that maps incompatible physical storage devices into a common pool of capacity, supposedly easing the burden and cost of managing heterogeneous storage.

Hewlett-Packard forked out $350 million for StorageApps this year, which put the technology on the map. And about $300 million has been invested in startups working on virtualization solutions.

No. 8: SSPs RIP

They came. They saw. They went away again.