The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

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 ...

Donato Buccella, CTO of Certeon, stopped by to discuss how network virtualization can improve the performance of both virtual and cloud computing environments. The entry point for the conversation was ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

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 ...

Cisco Systems moved further into the file virtualization arena when it announced a definitive agreement to purchase privately held NeoPath Networks, a network storage and virtualization firm.

NV provides the ability to create logical, virtual networks that are decoupled from the underlying network hardware. NV creates a logical, software-based view of the hardware and software networking ...

While the advantages of virtualization are widely acknowledged with regard to servers, desktops and storage devices, this is also leading military organizations to examine how virtualization can be ...

While there are some software products that are appliance-agnostic, most vendors bundle the virtualization software with their own storage. In order to make a fair comparison, CRN Test Center ...

The deal, announced at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., seemed a slap in the face to IBM rival EMC, based just miles away in Hopkinton, Mass. IBM said that Cisco fields an all-EMC storage pool, but ...

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 ...