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 ...

Sanbolic observed that many organizations that embark on the journey to a more virtualized environment don't think about how that move impacts their storage infrastructure. The company's product, ...

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (www.interarbor-solutions.com), an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clabby Analytics – “Virtualization” refers to placing systems, storage, and/or network resources into logical groups or virtualized “pools”. These resources can then be exploited by applications and ...

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The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the ...

perspective The initial interest in virtualization was on pure-play server consolidation and its corresponding savings on capital expenditure and management. Now, organizations are looking to take ...

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

VMware may be expanding into thin provisioning and virtualized storage, but DataCore Software has been at this now for 10 years As the hypervisor continues to reach commodity, companies like VMware ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...