The fires of hot topics are usually stoked with hype, but in the case of storage virtualization, the topic actually exceeds the hype. Let me explain why. It's not surprising that many vendors are ...

Storage virtualization is one of today’s most talked-about technologies, but it’s not a cure-all. Here are some things it can-and cannot-do. By Chris Preimesberger Storage virtualization is a logical ...

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 ...

Giancarlo said Pure Storage’s Enterprise Data Cloud lets organizations access and leverage all their data securely, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last month or so, I've spoken with multiple suppliers of various types of storage virtualization technology. Sometimes these suppliers use the term "storage virtualization"; other times, they ...

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 ...

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

Depending on whom you talk to, you will get different opinions about storage virtualization, along with stories of success and failure. Storage virtualization techniques are being applied to block as ...

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 ...