The fires of hot topics are usually stoked with hype, but in the case of storage virtualization, the topic actually exceeds the hype. Let me explain why. It's not surprising that many vendors are ...

Fibre Channel technology, which has been available since 1988, is undergoing its next evolution with the recent doubling of the speed of 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps. Fibre Channel (FC) emerged as a way to move ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that I’m a firm believer in virtualizing everything from systems and storage to those infrastructure elements, such LAN segments, that can be abstracted. Zero reality is my mantra.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Storage vendor EMC has released details about its upcoming entry into the storage virtualization market, provoking an uncharacteristically pugnacious response from seasoned campaigner, IBM. EMC said ...

IBM reports that nearly 15 petabytes of data are created every day; eight times greater than the amount of information stored in all of the libraries in the U.S. The explosion of big data and cloud ...

Storage virtualisation products are finally seeing the light of day thanks to resellers finding ways to make this technology useful in the day-to-day lives of storage administrators. "Adoption has ...