What does VHD stand for?

Managing Explosive and Unexpected Growth -- Although converting physical machines to virtual machines is an asset for building dynamic data centres (fluidity, disaster recovery, backups) virtual hard drives become extremely large flat files--a typical Vista Ultimate install consumes ~15 gigs of local storage for the OS alone, not counting data files--and storing these files can quickly become unmanageable.

Inother words, it's a virtual hard drive that lives online.

Most, if not all, virtualization solutions offer a migration tool to take an existing physical server and make a virtual hard drive image of that server to the driver stack.

DocSpace Manager joins two earlier modules, web courier Express and Drive, which the Toronto-based company describes as a secure virtual hard drive.

1 delivers new networking technology that enables users to stream their desktop from any Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance or file server that supports the CIFS protocol from a virtual hard drive (VHD) container.

Inother words, it's a virtual hard drive that lives online.

Xdrive is a Santa Monica-based company, founded last year, offering individuals and businesses a virtual hard drive for storing files online.

With a single click, HipServ users will be able to back up their most precious digital information in a virtual hard drive that is safe, totally secure and physically removed from the home--the ultimate 'safe deposit box' for important files.