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 ...

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 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, ...

It’s almost an axiom that one can never have too much storage capacity. Year after year enterprises generate mountains of data requiring new storage capacity. In practice, however, the average ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause 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 ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

It’s clear that virtualization is taking over every function of the technology infrastructure: Compute, storage, and networking are being converted to software-defined anything (SDx) platforms 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 ...

One of the most expensive components of a server virtualization project is the storage which it is attached to. This is one of the reasons that VMworld seems more like a storage event than a server ...

Virtualization administrators will be happy to know that StarWind is now offering two free software tools that could prove quite useful in the virtual datacenter. The first tool is for virtual hard ...