storage However, solution providers and their customers have found that storage virtualization, and thin provisioning technology in particular, is the ideal way to maintain storage management ...

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 ...

The deal, announced at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., seemed a slap in the face to IBM rival EMC, based just miles away in Hopkinton, Mass. IBM said that Cisco fields an all-EMC storage pool, but ...

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?

In last week’s newsletter, we discussed the use of virtualization as a way to save on storage costs. This week, we’ll cover the nuts and bolts of how to realize these savings. Storage virtualization – ...

Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage challenge VMware with validated infrastructure offering independent scaling, unified management, and no vendor lock-in.

Cisco Systems moved further into the file virtualization arena when it announced a definitive agreement to purchase privately held NeoPath Networks, a network storage and virtualization firm.

What about storage virtualization? What about desktop virtualization? What about application virtualization? What about virtualizing all your data-center hardware including Unix boxes and mainframes?

EMC joined the storage virtualization pack last week as the storage giant unveiled its EMC Invista Network Storage Virtualizaiton Platform at its annual user conference. “EMC views network storage ...

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation data center technology and application infrastructure that combines ...

In this entry we continue our series on Desktop Virtualization and the challenges it creates for the storage infrastructure. Today we focus on the problem of cost. As I mentioned in the opening entry ...

Actiphy Inc., a leading provider of backup, disaster recovery, and virtualization software, today announced the release of a new version of ActiveImage Protector 2022, now featuring support for Linux ...