The storage virtualization industry is repeating an error it made long ago in the early days of industry standard x86 system: a focus on processing performance to the ...

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd ...

Virtualization is a very broad topic that includes mechanisms to move many types of functions into a logical environment that can have enhanced characteristics over physical environments. Access to ...

There are many types of virtualization that focus on the different computing resources: server, network, storage. Virtualization is becoming a key technology for the evolving IT landscape and, as ...

One of the key steps in addressing the issue of depleted bandwidth is accepting the idea that some types of storage cost more than others (I'll revisit this theme later on). You can look at a storage ...

“When you look at what flash is doing to storage and how virtualization changes the data center, how can it not be converged?” asked HP VP of Storage Marketing Craig Nunes in the Cube at VMworld 2012.

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

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 ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

36 In part one of this series, we looked at selecting an enterprise virtualization platform, and at some of the benefits gained. Now we're going to look at some of the challenges involved in selecting ...

"Virtualization" has gained a reputation for both "must-have-it-ness" and mystique in the storage world. There is a perception that it is something we all must do if we are to have any hope of keeping ...

ORLANDO — EMC Corp. announced yesterday at its annual user conference here that it plans to begin by next quarter beta testing of an enterprise-class “storage router” that will be able to pool storage ...