Of the top three SMB storage virtualization vendors, IBM looks to be on track to gain the most share of the storage virtualization market compared to its top competitors, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, ...

NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. “Object-based storage is a new and emerging approach to storing ...

Storage virtualization in any of its many forms presents an interesting dilemma for IT folks. How does one select a virtualization technology and utilize its benefits without locking-in long term?

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 ...

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, ...

The economy is down, IT spending is uncertain, and businesses are looking for efficiency from every IT dollar they spend. Yet those companies -- profitable or not -- continue to collect, store, and ...

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 ...

Applied to servers or storage, virtualization lets users host dozens or hundreds of server operating system instances, or divide and control the amounts of storage on different disks, both from a few ...

Storage scalability in a virtualized environment is quickly becoming a concern for some data centers. Unlike the very predictable single server world which had a single application, single NIC card ...

As server virtualization becomes more widespread desktop virtualization is quickly becoming the next big project that IT Managers have on their white board. As with any new IT project it has the ...