As more and more IT environments become virtualized, new ways to take advantage of those environments are being offered. These include new ways to build virtual desk infrastructures, perform storage ...

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 ...

As the initial wave of virtualization projects come to a close, many are finding an odd result. CPU utilization is actually lower than when it started. Now users are looking to pile on more workloads ...

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 ...

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 it comes to infrastructural needs, it always boils down to price, performance and ease of use, both in the cloud and on-premise. To tackle the hustle of enhancing a software-defined data center ...

New Dell EqualLogic storage platforms extend Dell's leadership in intellectual property for virtualized storage Offers customers up to 60 percent performance improvement on typical workloads over ...

For a good part of this year, I have been part of a tremendous opportunity to see a virtualized storage platform come to existence. This week, Hitachi Data Systems released the Hitachi Virtual Storage ...

NetApp recently announced that it was acquiring Akorri, a small but highly regarded provider of management solutions for virtualized storage environments. All in all, this is yet another sign of the ...

You may remember Neterion and its 10 GbE Xframe HBA from some of my previous columns columns or blogs. At the latest Storage Networking World earlier this month, Neterion Corp. was showing off not ...

If given the option, modern enterprises would gladly shed any and all dependencies on legacy applications running on proprietary compute, storage and networking hardware. The advantages of ...