Tiered storage no longer has the hype surrounding it that it did a few years ago. The concept was simple -- move data from expensive Fibre drives to inexpensive SATA drives. SATA drive technology was ...

Converting systems with large amounts of storage has always been a tricky task. Frequently, there are limited amounts of quiet time to convert these systems. This can be made even more difficult when ...

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels In just a few short years, storage ...

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels In just a few short years, storage ...

If 2006 and 2007 were when Fortune 1000 enterprises were testing storage virtualization in their data centers, 2008 and 2009 are going to be the years that all this hot new software will be deployed ...

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 to ...

Storage virtualization is often billed as what I call a "Time To" product, meaning that it reduces the time it takes IT to respond to demands on the business. Virtualization shortens the amount of ...

NASA’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center wasn’t shooting for the stars when it turned to virtualization to meet its storage needs. IPAC’s cash-strapped effort to record images of our universe — ...

Q: Whats the difference between “storage virtualization” and “file virtualization”? A: At one level pretty much everything in storage these days is virtualized to some degree. Low level standards like ...

Converting systems with large amounts of storage has always been a tricky task. Frequently, there are limited amounts of quiet time to convert these systems. This can be made even more difficult when ...

In just a few short years, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, has proven its worth in the large enterprise and traveled that well-worn path from pricey boutique solution to ...