Over the last month or so, I've spoken with multiple suppliers of various types of storage virtualization technology. Sometimes these suppliers use the term "storage virtualization"; other times, they ...

The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. That is the thinking of Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux project more than a decade ago and head of ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.0 was announced at SUSECON in September, and is expected to be released in late October 2017. It's built upon the foundation of the Ceph open source project. SUSE Enterprise ...

Containers, a different, lightweight take on virtualization, has finally gone mainstream with Linux Containers (LXC) and Docker -- and that spells big changes for server farms, data centers, and the ...

Virtualization is a technology offering an abstraction layer between software and hardware. It can emulate a hardware platform in order to provide the operating system abstractions of various ...

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I need to run Windows 8.1, Linux and a File Server (could just be part of the Windows or Linux install) on the same machine. Should I: 1) Install Windows then create a Linux VM using VirtualBox, ...

Ken Steinhardt has just taken over as the chief technology officer of EMC's customer liaison organization, at a time when the storage industry is experiencing a period of particularly explosive growth ...

In one of the first attempts by a top IT vendor to support network-based storage virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced plans to use new software to let IT administrators manage all ...