Virtual storage is an idea that various companies are very keen we adopt. The thinking behind it is simple: in the same way that virtual memory seamlessly merges hard disk and RAM to create a memory ...

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 ...

Gregg Holzrichter, Virsto's VP Marketing, and Eric Burgener, VP Product Management, were kind enough to stop by and brief me on version 2.0 of the company's Virsto for vSphere. Due to an illness in my ...

Camberley Bates, managing director of analyst firm Evaluator Group, hosted a panel during the COMDEXvirtual conference on how storage performance impacts business' moves to virtualize their IT ...

In this entry we continue our series on Desktop Virtualization and the challenges it creates for the storage infrastructure. Today we focus on the problem of cost. As I mentioned in the opening entry ...

Brian Carmody, CTO of INFINIDAT, came by to discuss his company, its technology and the release of a new product. I find it fascinating how many different takes suppliers have come up with on the ...

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 ...

Over the last month or so, I've spoken with multiple suppliers of various types of storage virtualization technology. Sometimes these suppliers use the term "storage virtualization"; other times, they ...

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 ...

Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks are in a string, etc.). What they do care about are the ...

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 ...

(1) Treating all storage media in the enterprise (hard drives, solid state drives, optical drives and tape drives) as a single pool of storage. See storage virtualization, virtual tape system and HSM.