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 ...

Automated tiering, the transparent movement of data based on activity or type, is quickly proving itself to be a hot consideration for storage managers but why stop at automated tiering? Can't we make ...

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 ...

Enterprises have long struggled with the storage conundrum of high capacity vs. high performance. Hard disk and solid state drives (SSDs) each offer advantages the other cannot match. Hard drives are ...

To say that server virtualization changes everything is an understatement. In storage though I don't think we understand or give credit to just how much of a game changer storage virtualization really ...

EqualLogic, which is being acquired by Dell, offers complete SAN virtualization, automatic load balancing, automatic online storage pools, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry?s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...

The F5 ARX file virtualization devices enable organizations to dramatically simplify data management and reduce storage costs, according to F5 Networks (News - Alert). Now F5 Networks has unveiled new ...

The $210 million cash deal is expected to close in September. Acopia is a Lowell, Mass., file virtualization technology vendor. Dan Matte, senior vice president of marketing for F5, said his company ...

While the majority of IT organizations today are well into phase one of virtualization that is typically defined as deploying virtual servers to run non-essential applications, resistance to ...

These days, the storage demands of users and applications are spiraling out of control in many enterprises. Additional disks and storage subsystems are frequently implemented to meet demands. But ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...