Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks are in a string, etc.). What they do care about are the ...

The EMC/IBM rivalry for top mind share in the storage industry is spilling out into storage virtualization. In this market, each aims to convince customers that it offers the best means of turning ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

Ibis Consulting Inc., a provider of electronic discovery and compliance solutions in Providence, R.I., considers itself a “data factory,” wherein data is not only the raw material, but also a vital ...

Symantec is updating its line of backup products and releasing a virtualization package combining the vendor’s own storage management software with Citrix’s Xen hypervisor. Symantec’s Veritas Virtual ...

Rolling out virtual servers and desktops is easier than provisioning physical machines, but the more flexible and dynamic resources still require IT managers to make the most out of all the resources ...

Management and security, always a troublesome twosome, have reared their ugly heads yet again. This time, they’re causing problems for virtualization initiatives, quashing deployment plans while IT ...

Yesterday, HP announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a leading provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. The deal came in at ...