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 ...

2. Hosting storage virtualization at the systems level usually does not result in significant performance degradation because applications usually reside on servers – hence it’s only one hop ...

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.

The problem: out-of-control storage costs. The solution: storage virtualization. Sounds simple? It’s not. IT organizations seeking to reduce costs in the data center recognize that storage ...

As SANs became real world over the past few years, vendors promised a storage nirvana of ubiquitous networks of storage available to every system on the network. Virtualization software vendors ...

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 is an industry trend that could affect how enterprises deal with data, Gartner analyst Chris Wolf said. In addition to VMware’s latest strides, Microsoft is doing similar ...

As storage and other key data center technologies continue to become more abstract - more virtualized - IT can and should expect to get more out of their systems. IT should expect CPU utilization ...

If you’re considering iSCSI and virtualization is on your storage road map, however, you may want to think again — at least for the time being.

We are currently in our RFI phase of looking at storage virtualization and I wanted to get some hive mind opinions. We narrowed down our vendor/product selection to the following. Each of these ...

Server virtualization technologies for Linux have advanced at a rapid pace of innovation with VMware and Citrix initially leading the way. They are now being joined by significant strategic ...