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 ...

There is never enough data storage. Accessing it can be complicated, using it fully is almost impossible, and making backups can be tricky. Those are just some of the problems associated with data ...

One of the hottest trends in IT currently is server virtualization. Led by VMware Inc., the market has broken through the barrier of bleeding-edge/early-adopter limbo ...

The storage vendor also introduced a new version of its SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) appliance, which virtualizes HP and non-HP storage into a single managed pool, as well as ...

Paravirtualization gives organizations more granular control over the computing and storage resources they are consuming than full virtualization, but each has unique advantages. Organizations of all ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (Ping An), the largest private insurer in the country, has implemented an IBM Software Defined Storage solution to ...

Data virtualization is a method of data management that refers to the compiling of all enterprise data in one place, regardless of its source. This is completed via a virtual data layer 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 ...