Technical Matters Because virtualization operates as an intermediate layer, it becomes the primary interface between servers and storage. Servers see the virtualization layer as a single storage ...

Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management. As with applications and servers, storage ...

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 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 ...

The EMC/IBM rivalry for top mind share in the storage industry is spilling out into storage virtualization. In this market, each aims to convince customers that it offers the best means of turning ...

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 ...

A new study from Saugatuck Technology says server virtualization will have the single largest impact on budgets for IT hardware and support through 2010. The survey, titled "The Many Faces of ...

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 ...

These days, the storage demands of users and applications are spiraling out of control in many enterprises. Additional disks and storage subsystems are frequently implemented to meet demands. But ...