Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...

The storage virtualization space is crackling with life these days, and it's not hard to see why. Not only does storage touch all branches of the virtualization tree, it's also a space where ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...

Here’s a look at the top storage virtualization vendors, their products, pricing and sample customers. Product: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.3 Services provided: IBM System Storage SAN ...

Shared storage is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization. This component of the infrastructure makes things like vMotion, high availability and Distributed Resource ...

Q: Whats the difference between “storage virtualization” and “file virtualization”? A: At one level pretty much everything in storage these days is virtualized to some degree. Low level standards like ...

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 ...

Virtualisation is a cornerstone of today’s enterprise IT architecture, but virtual machines pose a number of performance issues, despite the benefits they bring in cost and efficiency. Storage is a ...

If there’s one thing that marketing departments in tech companies around the world are unbelievably good at, it’s taking the newest and hottest technology terms and diluting them to the point that ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...