Christopher Poelker is the author of Storage Area Networks for Dummies, and has over 30 years of experience architecting storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions. Chris specializes in ...

Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management. As with applications and servers, storage ...

What’s Happening :: Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management.As with applications ...

Storage area network (SAN) bypasses sending data over regular networks by building a separate network just for storage devices, servers, backup systems and so forth, and then connecting the SAN to ...

Storage 101: Cost Control Through Storage Virtualization Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks ...

Storage virtualization is most often used in a SAN (storage-area network). Management of individual storage devices can be tedious and time-consuming, but storage virtualization helps ...

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 ...

In a large centralized storage system, the bucket might be comprised of an array of from 1 to 2 terabytes of high performance drives that are used for mission critical or online applications. When the ...

Yesterday, HP announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a leading provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. The deal came in ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, ... Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a shipping date of July 25 for its TotalStorage Storage Area Network ...