• Clusters of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) are usefulto achieve application-level high availability. Clustering involves using shared storage, which provides fault tolerance and accessibility to ...

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 ...

StorMagic's new SvSAN allows the deployment of a high-availability, shared storage solution in VMware ESX virtual server infrastructures, said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing for the Eden ...

But iSCSI SANs are finding favor among businesses of varying sizes that resisted shared storage because of Fibre Channel's cost and complexity. These iSCSI SANs are especially popular for working with ...

SAN vendor Sanbolic is giving VMware virtual machines the ability to share access to application data. Storage-area network vendor Sanbolic is giving VMware virtual machines the ability to share ...

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 ...

Ever found yourself juggling multiple virtual machine (VM) hosts, only to be bogged down by scattered storage, sluggish migrations, or the constant fear of data loss? Managing VM storage can feel like ...

Virtual desktop environments are different than virtual server environments when discussing performance. To the virtual desktop environment we need to be able to provide acceptable performance ...

VirtualBox is a great tool for creating, running, and managing virtual machines. It’s free, it’s flexible, and it’s powerful. If you use this tool in your data center, you might find the need to ...

In April, Microsoft released new Azure disk sizes and burst support for Premium SSD Disks to all regions in the Azure Public Cloud. In the following month, at its virtual Build event, the tech giant ...

I’m a huge fan of server virtualization for mixed purpose hosting. It’s not a perfect fit for every situation but it’s very versatile. The portability of guest operating systems adds some level of ...

Editor's note: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus line fully replaces the Maxtor Shared Storage line, which we reviewed last year. Users of the older Shared Storage line can contact Maxtor for a free ...