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 ...

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (www.interarbor-solutions.com), an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier ...

Candera Inc. this week plans to go public with a storage virtualization device after two years of development, joining the race to provide users with technology that can combine different storage ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

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 ...

The storage virtualization industry is repeating an error it made long ago in the early days of industry standard x86 system: a focus on processing performance to the ...

As a user, some of you may be nonplussed by the two terminologies now appearing almost at every technical site: Cloud Computing and Virtualization. We had covered introductory articles on Cloud ...

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 ...

Storage virtualization, like other forms of virtualization, is using excess system resources to create an artificial environment for data and applications. The process of abstracting functions away ...

First, we'll cover the available types in order to introduce the major technologies, then we'll talk about several things to keep in mind with respect to availability, reliability, and recovery. The ...