Technical Matters Because virtualization operates as an intermediate layer, it becomes the primary interface between servers and storage. Servers see the virtualization layer as a single storage ...

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 ...

It’s almost an axiom that one can never have too much storage capacity. Year after year enterprises generate mountains of data requiring new storage capacity. In practice, however, the average ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agencies focused on virtualized servers for greater efficiency are seeing only half of the picture, according to Christopher Poelker, vice president of Enterprise Solutions at FalconStor Software. A ...

Sir Winston Churchill once described Russia as a "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Today, one could apply that label to the nebulous area of storage virtualization — specifically the ...

Virtualization administrators will be happy to know that StarWind is now offering two free software tools that could prove quite useful in the virtual datacenter. The first tool is for virtual hard ...

The big payoff for customers is the ability to defer storage purchases, letting them take advantage of falling per-terabyte prices in the future, Teter said. Another benefit of thin provisioning is ...

Virtualized storage is hardly new, but it has been reinvigorated by interesting solutions from major vendors, such as Hitachi’s TagmaStore and IBM’s SAN Volume Controller. You can now count EMC as a ...