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

There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: ...

The software-de­fined data center is the next evolution for infrastructure and automation with promises of lower costs, greater agility and increased scalability. Rather than a hardware-centric ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s almost an axiom that one can never have too much storage capacity. Year after year enterprises generate mountains of data requiring new storage capacity. In practice, however, the average ...

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 ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) prepares talented students in grades 10 through 12 to become ...

Today's world is defined by an overwhelming variety of technologies designed to simplify our lives. So much so, that they become an integral part of our daily routines. From the invention of the ...

As server virtualization becomes more widespread desktop virtualization is quickly becoming the next big project that IT Managers have on their white board. As with any new IT project it has the ...

The storage vendor also introduced a new version of its SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) appliance, which virtualizes HP and non-HP storage into a single managed pool, as well as ...

The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...