Technical Matters Because virtualization operates as an intermediate layer, it becomes the primary interface between servers and storage. Servers see the virtualization layer as a single storage ...

The successor to storage virtualization remains largely untested by agencies, but industry experts say the benefits will change that soon enough. With networks and servers becoming software defined, ...

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 ...

Tying together disparate disk systems in the data center is now taking on a new sense of urgency with the meteoric growth of server virtualization. End users looking to achieve the true benefits of ...

Survey after survey indicates that interest in and adoption of storage virtualization is increasing. But I cringe a bit when I see those surveys, because it’s often impossible to determine what the ...

Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage challenge VMware with validated infrastructure offering independent scaling, unified ...

Sir Winston Churchill once described Russia as a "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Today, one could apply that label to the nebulous area of storage virtualization — specifically the ...

As recently as five years ago, business continuity and disaster-recovery topics would make IT executives in small to midsize enterprises grumble that neither was affordable. Now companies of all sizes ...

Server virtualization is supposed to save buckets of cash, largely from server reduction. After all, consolidating some 20 physical servers to three host servers means less hardware, power and cooling ...

Lukas Gentele is the cofounder and CEO of Loft Labs, Inc.—creators of the popular open-source projects vCluster, DevPod and DevSpace. Kubernetes is a well-known open-source platform facilitating the ...

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 ...

Virtualized storage is hardly new, but it has been reinvigorated by interesting solutions from major vendors, such as Hitachi’s TagmaStore and IBM’s SAN Volume Controller. You can now count EMC as a ...