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 ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

It's one of those rare cases where one plus one equals much more than two. Solution providers adding server virtualization to their practice are finding the need for new storage infrastructures, ...

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 ...

Virtual machines (VMs) have dramatically transformed the way IT organizations approach the computing architecture. Initially employed to provide greater efficiency, server virtualization has quickly ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

I've been using Proxmox a lot recently, deploying various different systems and containers across both of my machines in order to move some of my more essential systems away from my main server.

Last week I went to what I thought at first glimpse was a server trade show – VMworld – and found a storage trade show where vendors were showing off their data protection and disaster recovery wares.

NetApp today at VMworld announced several new products and enhancements to its products to support VMware vSphere 4 and VMware View. Among the announcement are of a Virtual Storage Console, which is a ...

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 ...

As we dive deeper into the storage as a virtual machine concept we went back and re-interviewed some of the players in the storage as a virtual machine market, focusing specifically on what they ...