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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In last week’s newsletter, we discussed the use of virtualization as a way to save on storage costs. This week, we’ll cover the nuts and bolts of how to realize these savings. Storage virtualization – ...

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, ...

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 ...

Storage virtualization isn’t a new concept, but it’s getting a lot of attention lately as the top storage vendors launch next-generation virtualization wares. The vendors vary on their approaches – ...

The deal, announced at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., seemed a slap in the face to IBM rival EMC, based just miles away in Hopkinton, Mass. IBM said that Cisco fields an all-EMC storage pool, but ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Right about now, far too many IT organizations are struggling with storage performance issues associated with virtual servers that could have been avoided with a little bit of planning. But given the ...