Storage virtualization is an effort to abstract the function of data storage from the procedures and physical process by which the data is actually stored. A user no longer needs to know how ...

Michael Maxey, senior analyst at Progressive Strategies, offers a checklist of questions to ask your company and vendors before investing in storage virtualization.

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 ...

Of the top three SMB storage virtualization vendors, IBM looks to be on track to gain the most share of the storage virtualization market compared to its top competitors, Hewlett-Packard and EMC.

The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware’s launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. While VMware ...

The Add Storage wizard can virtualize, service-enable, unassign or import storage, while the Virtualize wizard enables virtualization, reformatting a disk or disks to add a virtualization header.

Paravirtualization gives organizations more granular control over the computing and storage resources they are consuming than full virtualization, but each has unique advantages.

Cooling the data center should get easier. Storage virtualization is poised to proceed to the next level – breaking the still-prevalent direct mapping between storage systems and compute nodes.

Mark Lewis, EMC's executive vice president, gives his company's side of the EMC/IBM rivalry in the storage virtualization space.

EMC Corp. has acquired a Bedford-based storage virtualization firm, which will join EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems division, the company announced Wednesday.