When it comes to virtualization, few vendors missed an opportunity to take jabs at one another at this week's Storage Networking World Conference (SNW). Perhaps no one ruffled more feathers than ...

There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: ...

Compellent Technologies Tuesday rolled out a new version of its Storage Center virtualization array with the ability to build a storage grid for running and migrating a data volume between two nodes ...

Public Preview 2 feature aims to simplify management of virtualized environments from a centralized interface.

The problem: out-of-control storage costs. The solution: storage virtualization. Sounds simple? It’s not. IT organizations seeking to reduce costs in the data center recognize that storage ...

There is an ongoing debate about what type of storage is best to use to support desktop virtualization solutions, especially in small to medium sized implementations. Storage is one of the most ...

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, ...

One of the most expensive components of a server virtualization project is the storage which it is attached to. This is one of the reasons that VMworld seems more like a storage event than a server ...

Storage virtualization isn’t new. It has been done for decades on mainframes, and almost every storage vendor claims to offer virtualization across at least some of its products. By creating a single ...

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 ...

With demands for agility and capacity, storage systems can't be islands. IBM's Ronald Riffe explains how software-defined storage provides a broad, hardware-independent solution The movement to ...