It's one of those rare cases where one plus one equals much more than two. Solution providers adding server virtualization to their practice are finding the need for new storage infrastructures, ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

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 ...

In my last entry and the first part of this series we discussed some of the key capabilities to look for when selecting a server virtualization strategy, but as a friend of mine pointed out I never ...

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, ...

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 ...

Similar to storage and networking, the two key types of server virtualization are partitioning and aggregation. The use of server partitioning has become quite common in the past few years, and is the ...

Virsto emerged from stealth mode last week with the introduction of software for storage virtualization in Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Server virtualization technologies for Linux have advanced at a rapid pace of innovation with VMware and Citrix (Xen) initially leading the way. They are now being joined by significant strategic ...