Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage challenge VMware with validated infrastructure offering independent scaling, unified ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

I've been using Proxmox a lot recently, deploying various different systems and containers across both of my machines in order to move some of my more essential systems away from my main server.

Last week I went to what I thought at first glimpse was a server trade show – VMworld – and found a storage trade show where vendors were showing off their data protection and disaster recovery wares.

As today’s e-business applications become increasingly datacentric, storage always seems in short supply. Add the increased capacity requirements of multimedia and on-demand video being deployed more ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry’s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...