Server consolidation: Applications running on servers typically use less than 20 percent of the available capacity. Server virtualization allows multiple VMs to run on the same physical server, thus ...

Network Appliance’s announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or ...

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 ...

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Virtualization is rapidly transforming the information landscape and changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating ...

If 2007 was the year of server virtualization, then 2008 may be the year storage virtualization finds its way into many data centers. Make no mistake about it -- server virtualization has left an ...

New virtualization technologies make it possible to corral and organize the myriad network appliances in the data center that monitor network performance and usage as well as provide security. Over ...

In the first week of May, three storage vendors announced enhancements or plans for products that support storage virtualization. The three announcements from VERITAS, EMC, and IBM are signs of the ...

F5 Networks today announced the release of two new file virtualization appliances, an entry-level offering and a midrange product that features 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. F5’s new entry-level ...

Oracle Tuesday rolled out an updated Oracle Database Appliance, called the X3-2, which adds virtualization to a product that combines database software with server, storage and networking, all in a ...

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 ...