As more and more IT environments become virtualized, new ways to take advantage of those environments are being offered. These include new ways to build virtual desk infrastructures, perform storage ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

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 ...

As the initial wave of virtualization projects come to a close, many are finding an odd result. CPU utilization is actually lower than when it started. Now users are looking to pile on more workloads ...

Virtual machines (VMs) have dramatically transformed the way IT organizations approach the computing architecture. Initially employed to provide greater efficiency, server virtualization has quickly ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

EMC provides industry's first and only end-to-end support of VMware vCenter™ and the ability to map virtual machine to storage and to self service storage provisioning across EMC's Storage Platforms ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

For a good part of this year, I have been part of a tremendous opportunity to see a virtualized storage platform come to existence. This week, Hitachi Data Systems released the Hitachi Virtual Storage ...

(1) Treating all storage media in the enterprise (hard drives, solid state drives, optical drives and tape drives) as a single pool of storage. See storage virtualization, virtual tape system and HSM.

Survey after survey indicates that interest in and adoption of storage virtualization is increasing. But I cringe a bit when I see those surveys, because it’s often impossible to determine what the ...