Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

Most IT professionals are familiar with server virtualization and the benefits it can bring to the datacenter. Many are not as aware that a similar change is happening to storage. Aberdeen recently ...

EMC provides industry's first and only end-to-end support of VMware vCenter™ and the ability to map virtual machine to storage and to self service storage provisioning across EMC's Storage Platforms ...

Hitachi Data Systems has released what it claims is the first unified storage product with enterprise class virtualization for all data types, including block, file and object. The Hitachi Unified ...

As today’s e-business applications become increasingly datacentric, storage always seems in short supply. Add the increased capacity requirements of multimedia and on-demand video being deployed more ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

When one of the largest hurricanes in U.S. history struck Texas in 2008, it wreaked havoc and caused billions of dollars worth of damage to many businesses. Because of our backup and disaster recovery ...

Storage virtualization has several key IT benefits in addition to improved resource utilization. For one, it allows data to be moved to any storage device in the pool when subsystems fail or are ...

In an event centered around virtualization a couple of weeks back, there were some things that came out rather clearly. First was that virtualization as a technology is creating a lot of ripples in ...