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 ...

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 ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

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 ...

Hitachi Data Systems Wednesday said it is taking steps to unify its storage operating system and make it virtualization-enabled as a way to help customers focus on how to grow their storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry?s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...

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 ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice before ...

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 ...