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 ...

Just as Ethernet networking devices have evolved from straightforward hubs to layer 2 switches to layer 7 application-aware switches, so are SAN switches evolving. The Maxxan MXV320 Intelligent ...

The EMC/IBM rivalry for top mind share in the storage industry is spilling out into storage virtualization. In this market, each aims to convince customers that it offers the best means of turning ...

Just as Ethernet networking devices have evolved from straightforward hubs to layer 2 switches to layer 7 application-aware switches, so are SAN switches evolving. The Maxxan Systems Inc. Maxxan ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Q: What are the main uses of storage virtualization? A: ...

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, ...

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd ...

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 ...

Storage virtualization is one of today’s most talked-about technologies, but it’s not a cure-all. Here are some things it can-and cannot-do. By Chris Preimesberger Storage virtualization is a logical ...

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 ...

VMware last week introduced vSphere 4.1, it latest virtualization platform. vSphere 4.1 has a variety of storage offerings but primarily the vStorage API for Array integration (VAAI), which allows ...