The economy is down, IT spending is uncertain, and businesses are looking for efficiency from every IT dollar they spend. Yet those companies -- profitable or not -- continue to collect, store, and ...

Storage virtualization isn’t a new concept, but it’s getting a lot of attention lately as the top storage vendors launch next-generation virtualization wares. The vendors vary on their approaches – ...

When it comes to storage virtualization, everyone from the top vendors to enterprise users talks about it, but nobody does much about it. That is, until now. The major storage companies are delivering ...

No matter how poorly the economy is doing, businesses continue to collect, store and archive data. Instead of spending on purchasing and managing additional storage capacity, those businesses are more ...

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 ...

NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. “Object-based storage is a new and emerging approach to storing ...

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 ...