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 ...

Tiered storage often means the development of a storage strategy that moves data from fast, expensive storage to slower SATA based storage. Tiered storage can also refer to the quality of the storage.

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, ...

EqualLogic, which is being acquired by Dell, offers complete SAN virtualization, automatic load balancing, automatic online storage pools, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets ...

To say that server virtualization changes everything is an understatement. In storage though I don't think we understand or give credit to just how much of a game changer storage virtualization really ...

What's the current state of small budget virtualization for storage? Think: 2-3 hosts with n+1 redundancy, 256G RAM required to run all current services and next few year's growth. It should be 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 – ...

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (www.interarbor-solutions.com), an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier ...

While the majority of IT organizations today are well into phase one of virtualization that is typically defined as deploying virtual servers to run non-essential applications, resistance to ...

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 ...

“For a company like us with a high growth rate, DataCore is a best fit,” says Hans Wiedemann, Head of IT at Sigel. “We now are independent from having to rely on expensive storage manufacturers and we ...

The $210 million cash deal is expected to close in September. Acopia is a Lowell, Mass., file virtualization technology vendor. Dan Matte, senior vice president of marketing for F5, said his company ...