The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...

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 ...

The fires of hot topics are usually stoked with hype, but in the case of storage virtualization, the topic actually exceeds the hype. Let me explain why. It's not surprising that many vendors are ...

Virtualisation has moved from being a shiny new technology concept to a sticky business that involves getting your hands dirty with some real technology and business problems. But while server ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Q: What are the main uses of storage virtualization? A: ...

Startup 22dot6 has launched its Valence storage virtualisation platform, with bold claims that it can transcend all existing third-party storage to provide a single view of all an organisation’s data ...

While the rise of flash storage in the datacentre was prominent in 2016, its trend line was perhaps less steep than that of hyper-converged infrastructure. Hyper-converged marries storage and server ...

It’s almost an axiom that one can never have too much storage capacity. Year after year enterprises generate mountains of data requiring new storage capacity. In practice, however, the average ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...