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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

As more and more products enter the market, iSCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to FC (Fibre Channel) SAN technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than Fibre Channel, but the ...

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 ...