Virtualisation has moved from being a shiny new technology concept to a sticky business that involves getting your hands dirty with some real technology and business problems. But while server ...

Storage virtualisation products are finally seeing the light of day thanks to resellers finding ways to make this technology useful in the day-to-day lives of storage administrators. "Adoption has ...

Over the last month or so, I've spoken with multiple suppliers of various types of storage virtualization technology. Sometimes these suppliers use the term "storage virtualization"; other times, they ...

Storage limitations are getting in the way of increased virtualisation strategies for many organisations, according to a new report. While many organisations are reaping the benefit of smart ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...

VPLEX enables customers to share storage over great distances and build a truly dynamic data center, said Pat Gelsinger, president and COO for EMC's infrastructure products. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Brian Carmody, CTO of INFINIDAT, came by to discuss his company, its technology and the release of a new product. I find it fascinating how many different takes suppliers have come up with on 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 ...

Ken Steinhardt has just taken over as the chief technology officer of EMC's customer liaison organization, at a time when the storage industry is experiencing a period of particularly explosive growth ...