As more and more IT environments become virtualized, new ways to take advantage of those environments are being offered. These include new ways to build virtual desk infrastructures, perform storage ...

Let's clear up some misconceptions about storage. First, cloud storage isn't always hosted on a public service, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. And second, virtualization and virtualized data storage ...

Camberley Bates, managing director of analyst firm Evaluator Group, hosted a panel during the COMDEXvirtual conference on how storage performance impacts business' moves to virtualize their IT ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

As the initial wave of virtualization projects come to a close, many are finding an odd result. CPU utilization is actually lower than when it started. Now users are looking to pile on more workloads ...

Virtualization “also reduces the storage administration burden over time by getting storage folks out of the server business,” says Rick Villars, an analyst at IDC in Framingham, Mass. If you listen ...

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

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A virtual storage appliance (VSA) is a storage controller that runs in a virtual machine (VM) connecting to storage that’s typically directly attached to the host supporting the VSA. VSAs can replace ...

IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage. SVC 5.0, due to ship on Nov. 6, is the latest ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...