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 ...

Camberley Bates, managing director of analyst firm Evaluator Group, hosted a panel during the COMDEXvirtual conference on how storage performance impacts business' moves to virtualize their IT ...

Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage challenge VMware with validated infrastructure offering independent scaling, unified ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As we dive deeper into the storage as a virtual machine concept we went back and re-interviewed some of the players in the storage as a virtual machine market, focusing specifically on what they ...

VMware is rounding out its new “software-defined data center” strategy with the acquisition of virtual storage company Virsto Software. “We believe that by extending the benefits of virtualization to ...

I am trying to figure out what people are looking into virtualizing storage and failing. I was linked this study, but at a quick glance, I couldn't find any real answers, so here are questions for Ars ...