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, ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the ...

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 ...

Of the top three SMB storage virtualization vendors, IBM looks to be on track to gain the most share of the storage virtualization market compared to its top competitors, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, ...

When it comes to storage virtualization, everyone from the top vendors to enterprise users talks about it, but nobody does much about it. That is, until now. The major storage companies are delivering ...

As storage and other key data center technologies continue to become more abstract – more virtualized – IT can and should expect to get more out of their systems. IT should expect CPU utilization to ...

Just as Ethernet networking devices have evolved from straightforward hubs to layer 2 switches to layer 7 application-aware switches, so are SAN switches evolving. The Maxxan MXV320 Intelligent ...

Paravirtualization gives organizations more granular control over the computing and storage resources they are consuming than full virtualization, but each has unique advantages. Organizations of all ...

There is never enough data storage. Accessing it can be complicated, using it fully is almost impossible, and making backups can be tricky. Those are just some of the problems associated with data ...