As today’s e-business applications become increasingly datacentric, storage always seems in short supply. Add the increased capacity requirements of multimedia and on-demand video being deployed more ...

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 ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

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 ...

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

As the initial wave of virtualization projects come to a close, many are finding an odd result. CPU utilization is actually lower than when it started. Now users are looking to pile on more workloads ...

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, ...

Flash storage and service vendor Pure Storage Inc. today announced a set of enhancements to its flagship platform, including file services that change in real time to adapt to underlying file system ...

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 ...

(1) Treating all storage media in the enterprise (hard drives, solid state drives, optical drives and tape drives) as a single pool of storage. See storage virtualization, virtual tape system and HSM.

NetApp today at VMworld announced several new products and enhancements to its products to support VMware vSphere 4 and VMware View. Among the announcement are of a Virtual Storage Console, which is a ...

I am trying to figure out what people are looking into virtualizing storage and failing. I was linked this study, but at a quick glance, I couldn't find any real answers, so here are questions for Ars ...