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 ...

Lenovo has announced new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile infrastructure solutions and data management services to support ...

As the economy slows down and budgets tighten up, once again IT professionals are being asked to do more with less (does anyone remember when you were allowed to do less with more?). How can you ...

Clabby Analytics – “Virtualization” refers to placing systems, storage, and/or network resources into logical groups or virtualized “pools”. These resources can then be exploited by applications and ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the ...

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 ...

Survey after survey indicates that interest in and adoption of storage virtualization is increasing. But I cringe a bit when I see those surveys, because it’s often impossible to determine what the ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...

As standards for Fibre Channel over Ethernet are put in place, companies with virtualized storage will be able to reap the benefits of the storage protocol The Fibre Channel over Ethernet storage ...