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 ...

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, ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

VergeFabric: the native Software-Defined Networking ( SDN) layer with several features similar to NSX. The VergeFS is the key ...

Interactive iGuide lets you explore the issues around business data growth with expert insights; 'Deep Dive' reports help IT take advantage of backup and storage virtualization InfoWorld.com has ...

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 ...

Virtualization is being driven deeper into data centers to tie together converged storage, compute, and networking hardware resources. Recent SDxCentral survey results reveal several key trends in ...

As recently as five years ago, business continuity and disaster-recovery topics would make IT executives in small to midsize enterprises grumble that neither was affordable. Now companies of all sizes ...

Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage challenge VMware with validated infrastructure offering independent scaling, unified management, and no vendor lock-in.

Dell has expanded its virtualization technology portfolio to help organizations striving to make data centers and IT operations work more efficiently. Dell has expanded its virtualization technology ...

As more and more products enter the market, iSCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to FC (Fibre Channel) SAN technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than Fibre Channel, but the ...