Sanbolic observed that many organizations that embark on the journey to a more virtualized environment don't think about how that move impacts their storage infrastructure. The company's product, ...

The problem: out-of-control storage costs. The solution: storage virtualization. Sounds simple? It’s not. IT organizations seeking to reduce costs in the data center recognize that storage ...

Clabby Analytics – “Virtualization” refers to placing systems, storage, and/or network resources into logical groups or virtualized “pools”. These resources can then be exploited by applications and ...

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 ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...

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

As the economy slows down and budgets tighten up, once again IT professionals are being asked to do more with less (does anyone remember when you were allowed to do less with more?). How can you ...

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 ...

VMware may be expanding into thin provisioning and virtualized storage, but DataCore Software has been at this now for 10 years As the hypervisor continues to reach commodity, companies like VMware ...

In this entry we continue our series on Desktop Virtualization and the challenges it creates for the storage infrastructure. Today we focus on the problem of cost. As I mentioned in the opening entry ...

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels In just a few short years, storage ...

Advances in storage hardware, software, management, and virtualization technology could never have taken place without the dedication, nay, the fanaticism, of a dedicated group of Storage Superstars.