No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as ...

Sir Winston Churchill once described Russia as a "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Today, one could apply that label to the nebulous area of storage virtualization — specifically the ...

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 ...

The economy is down, IT spending is uncertain, and businesses are looking for efficiency from every IT dollar they spend. Yet those companies -- profitable or not -- continue to collect, store, and ...

Storage virtualization isn’t a new concept, but it’s getting a lot of attention lately as the top storage vendors launch next-generation virtualization wares. The vendors vary on their approaches – ...

Whatever type of storage you have, there’s a vendor with a way to “virtualize” it to make management easier. Some products perform virtualization on the server, such as SANSymphony from DataCore ...

VMware announced that it is expanding its hardware certification program to include storage virtualization devices. The virtualization company has been making an attempt to attract more business from ...

Each year in our Emerging Vendors list, CRN looks at the tech startups making their presence known in the industry. Each company on the list also has an all-important quality: It has demonstrated that ...

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 ...

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 ...