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 ...

Virtualization is the term we use to describe when we are abstracting, or acquiring, one set of technology from another. Server virtualization, for example, is the abstraction of the server instance ...

Depending on whom you talk to, you will get different opinions about storage virtualization, along with stories of success and failure. Storage virtualization techniques are being applied to block as ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...

The storage virtualization space is crackling with life these days, and it's not hard to see why. Not only does storage touch all branches of the virtualization tree, it's also a space where ...

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 ...

This is the second of a four-part series on block-based storage virtualization technology. In the first story, “Block-level storage virtualization: Reasons to implement it,” we explain the reasons why ...

Download the entire December 2012 InformationWeek SMB special issue on storage virtualization, distributed in an all-digital format as part of our Green Initiative (Registration required.) Storage ...

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 ...

Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a shipping date of July 25 for its TotalStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) Volume Controller and its SAN Integration Server. The SAN Volume Controller includes ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...