The storage virtualization industry is repeating an error it made long ago in the early days of industry standard x86 system: a focus on processing performance to the ...

Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. Storage virtualization ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Storage virtualization in any of its many forms presents an interesting dilemma for IT folks. How does one select a virtualization technology and utilize its benefits without locking-in long term?

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

We all have probably seen situations in which someone creates a new EC2 instance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and finds that while the instance performed really well at first, it gets slower ...

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (www.interarbor-solutions.com), an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier ...

The deal, announced at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., seemed a slap in the face to IBM rival EMC, based just miles away in Hopkinton, Mass. IBM said that Cisco fields an all-EMC storage pool, but ...

As the hype about containers has mounted over the past year, it has raised questions about what this technology – which is for packaging applications – means for traditional management and ...

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