Users of VMware’s virtualization are usually familiar with vMotion which enables virtual machines to move from one physical machine to another. HP is taking the same basic concept and applying it to storage.
HP’s Peer Motion technology is being expanded with new features to enable storage mobility and federation across devices.
“What Peer Motion gives is a way to totally, transparently and non-disruptively move data around your storage system within your data center or even a metro area,” Craig Nunes, VP of Marketing at HP Storage told InternetNews.com. “Think of VMware vMotion as a storage system.”