What technology does ARX use to create a logical abstraction of the physical storage environment?

Data deduplication reduces storage capacity usage by eliminating duplicate blocks but does not create a logical abstraction layer over the physical storage environment.

File virtualization is the foundational technology in ARX that intercepts NAS file access requests at the network level and presents a unified logical namespace to clients, completely independent of where files physically reside across heterogeneous storage systems. This abstraction layer is what enables ARX to transparently move, tier, and manage files without any reconfiguration on the client side.

Server virtualization abstracts physical compute hardware into virtual machines and is entirely unrelated to creating an abstraction over file storage infrastructure.

SSL encryption is a cryptographic protocol for securing data in transit and plays no role in abstracting or virtualizing the physical storage environment.