Storage virtualization is one of today’s most talked-about technologies, but it’s not a cure-all. Here are some things it can-and cannot-do. By Chris Preimesberger Storage virtualization is a logical ...

Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks are in a string, etc.). What they do care about are the ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

The storage vendor also introduced a new version of its SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) appliance, which virtualizes HP and non-HP storage into a single managed pool, as well as ...

The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...

The problem: out-of-control storage costs. The solution: storage virtualization. Sounds simple? It’s not. IT organizations seeking to reduce costs in the data center recognize that storage ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry?s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...

Because applications are the lifeblood of the modern business, there’s a heavy burden on developers to provide modern, integrated, high-quality applications — and to do so in a compressed timeframe.