Tepco fears some of the fuel rods may become exposed if the water in their storage pools is allowed to boil down too low.

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Storage virtualization that creates pools of existing storage assets that can be viewed and managed as a contiguous resource.

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Put simply, this means creating pools of processing power, storage capacity and network bandwidth.

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Machines, storage devices and networks will lose their identity and feed into pools of resources that can be tapped as needed.

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