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 ...

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 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, ...

In my last entry and the first part of this series we discussed some of the key capabilities to look for when selecting a server virtualization strategy, but as a friend of mine pointed out I never ...

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 ...

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 ...

Network Appliance Inc.'s (NetApp) senior vice president and general manager of the Emerging Products Group, Jay Kidd, is on a whirlwind tour of North America. Last week he could be seen heading up a ...

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 ...

We are currently in our RFI phase of looking at storage virtualization and I wanted to get some hive mind opinions. We narrowed down our vendor/product selection to the following. Each of these seem ...

These days, the storage demands of users and applications are spiraling out of control in many enterprises. Additional disks and storage subsystems are frequently implemented to meet demands. But ...

There is never enough data storage. Accessing it can be complicated, using it fully is almost impossible, and making backups can be tricky. Those are just some of the problems associated with data ...