IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry’s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...

HP on Tuesday announced new storage virtualisation products designed to reduce the need for customers to upgrade their existing storage. The StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6400 and 8400, ...

(1) Treating all storage media in the enterprise (hard drives, solid state drives, optical drives and tape drives) as a single pool of storage. See storage virtualization, virtual tape system and HSM.

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses face unprecedented challenges managing data among the proliferation of generative AI, cloud technologies, and exponential data growth, ...

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 ...

EMC on Tuesday launched a storage array, the Symmetrix V-Max, that uses a new virtualization architecture to provide a linked pool of up to 3 petabytes of storage. The main principle of the new system ...

It's one of those rare cases where one plus one equals much more than two. Solution providers adding server virtualization to their practice are finding the need for new storage infrastructures, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...