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 ...

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In mid-December, storage giant EMC announced plans to acquire privately held VMware. It’s EMC’s third acquisition of a software company this year in its drive to transform itself from a storage ...

In this entry we will return to our series on selecting storage solutions for the virtualized server environment focusing now on dealing with capacity, storing the virtual server images and all their ...

Under the deal, terms of which were not unveiled, XenSource will embed Veritas Storage Foundation into XenEnterprise for all customers in order to provide integrated data protection and data ...

Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server. The next version of Windows Server is finally here! It's been a long time ...

To say that server virtualization changes everything is an understatement. In storage though I don't think we understand or give credit to just how much of a game changer storage virtualization really ...

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 ...

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 ...

First off, a huge thank you to editor Bruce Hoard and the Virtualization Review team for inviting me to participate in this CTO blog forum. I look forward to exercising our collective thoughts on ...

Organizations are using virtualization to manage their cloud environment effectively. Here is a rundown of the different types and what each can offer. In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization ...

Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn’t just a one-step process — as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware’s ESX, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Xen ...