eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Pat Gelsinger had recently come to EMC last fall after ...

Nemertes Research recently published its third volume of data center research on the topic of storage. Our research shows that just under a third of companies are using storage virtualization ...

(1) Treating all storage media in the enterprise (hard drives, solid state drives, optical drives and tape drives) as a single pool of storage. See storage virtualization, virtual tape system and HSM.

Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management. As with applications and servers, storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. EMC finally dipped its toe into storage virtualization ...

When it comes to storage virtualization, everyone from the top vendors to enterprise users talks about it, but nobody does much about it. That is, until now. The major storage companies are delivering ...

When the Storage Area Network (SAN) first burst onto the IT Manager's radar, the 'spin' promised much but often failed to live up to its marketing hype. Great fanfares heralded the concept, explaining ...