Camberley Bates, managing director of analyst firm Evaluator Group, hosted a panel during the COMDEXvirtual conference on how storage performance impacts business' moves to virtualize their IT ...

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 ...

Sometimes when you fix one problem, you create a new one. That is often the case when you turn to server or desktop virtualization to reduce hardware, power and administrative costs only to end up ...

Some vendors are adding virtualized storage features, such as thin provisioning, to their non-virtualized offerings. No wonder even storage pro are confused about storage virtualization.

The More, the Merrier Most school districts that turn to virtualization start with their servers and then, seeing the benefits, begin considering other forms too. As analyst David Hill points out, ...

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 ...

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion hones in ...

First off, a huge thank you to editor Bruce Hoard and the Virtualization Review team for inviting me to participate in this CTO blog forum. I look forward to exercising our collective thoughts on ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

* How to get from here to virtualized storage The problem: out-of-control storage costs. The solution: storage virtualization. Sounds simple? It’s not.

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 ...

Although storage virtualization technology is fairly new, it's quickly gaining traction in the corporate world. In 2006, 20% of 1,017 companies surveyed by Forrester Research had adopted storage ...