Storage virtualization exists in different shapes and forms, from virtual tape to switches and appliances, so knowing what best suits your needs is critical to deploying the technology.

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 ...

Five Keys to Smart Storage Virtualization Fortunately, that had changed by the time SXC acquired NMHC last February. Gone was the hodgepodge of arrays and, in its place, a high-capacity, easy-to ...

If 2007 was the year of server virtualization, then 2008 may be the year storage virtualization finds its way into many data centers. Make no mistake about it -- server virtualization has left an ...

Storage virtualization is valuable, but if you have to make major modifications to your infrastructure to turn it on, the return on investment can be compromised.

Storage 101: Cost Control Through Storage Virtualization Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks ...

We found that in a lot of businesses they may have as little as 20 percent utilization of their storage capacity. By going to storage virtualization, they can have a 300 percent increase in that ...

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Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Of the top three SMB storage virtualization vendors, IBM looks to be on track to gain the most share of the storage virtualization market compared to its top competitors, Hewlett-Packard and EMC.

Storage virtualization’s newfound flexibility and control does have risks. “The flexibility can be your worst nightmare…it’s like giving razor blades to a child,” says Wasatch’s Engh.