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 ...

John Joseph, VP of Marketing of Dell EqualLogic Storage, and I had a short, but interesting dicussion about the place virtual storage should have in a well designed virtualized environment. If one is ...

Tegile Systems' Vice President of Marketing, Rob Commins, stopped by recently to both introduce the company and to fill me in on what the company is doing to make storage more efficient, perform ...

To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved. High Availability (HA) is a topic with a great deal of history. Different ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there’s one thing that marketing departments in tech companies around the world are unbelievably good at, it’s taking the newest and hottest technology terms and diluting them to the point that ...