Sanbolic observed that many organizations that embark on the journey to a more virtualized environment don't think about how that move impacts their storage infrastructure. The company's product, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The more you look into server virtualization, the more you find yourself looking back at the storage for arrangement, optimization, troubleshooting and expansion capabilities. In my current ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

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 ...

VMware may be expanding into thin provisioning and virtualized storage, but DataCore Software has been at this now for 10 years As the hypervisor continues to reach commodity, companies like VMware ...

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels In just a few short years, storage ...

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