Survey after survey indicates that interest in and adoption of storage virtualization is increasing. But I cringe a bit when I see those surveys, because it’s often impossible to determine what 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. Kitch Drutchas Wagner ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

With SANsymphony-V, DataCore is addressing the problems related to how to best utilize storage as customers consolidate servers and desktops with virtualization technology, said George Teixeira, ...

This week, we’re looking at IBM’s storage-area networking virtualization products. In my previous newsletter, I described IBM’s SAN Volume Controller. Now it is time to look at the company’s ...

Onaro’s SANscreen VMInsight software monitors, tracks and manages VM host hardware and logical hosted VM operating-system instances connected to enterprise-sized heterogeneous storage-area-network ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Gregg Holzrichter, Virsto's VP Marketing, and Eric Burgener, VP Product Management, were kind enough to stop by and brief me on version 2.0 of the company's Virsto for vSphere. Due to an illness in my ...

Hitachi Data Systems on Monday unveiled the Universal Storage Platform V series, a single device that the company says offers a complete, multi-purpose storage environment that can be run off a single ...

Hewlett-Packard aims to cut the total cost of storage while allowing enterprises to keep adding capacity and forging ahead with virtualization projects in tough economic times. In a series of products ...

I have a Win 10 Pro/64 box with 4 SATA drive bays that I'm using as a 2nd-tier backup storage box (Veeam repository). When I first populated the box, I did a "thin provisioning" and created a 16 TB ...