Storage service at the hypervisor may be a disruptor of the traditional storage deployment model. In its most basic form, storage services in a virtualized environment can come from companies running the services as a virtual machine. Companies like HP via their LeftHand Networks group, FalconStor NexentaStor and others are all providing this capability. The impact the server virtualization is going to have on storage is just now being felt. We expect software like this that will work with the. hypervisor to extend its capabilities to become more common place.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/storage-service-at-the-hypervisor