Storage virtualization

Deep dive: SAN and NAS virtualization
Nov. 11, 2009
How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels

How Cisco UCS reinvents the datacenter
Nov. 10, 2009
If you could design a blade server system entirely from scratch, it might look a whole lot like Cisco's Unified Computing System

IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs
Oct. 14, 2009
IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

Acadia gets cloud-computing venture rolling in Asia
Nov. 04, 2009
Cisco Systems, EMC and VMware hope to soon sign the first Asian customers for their cloud-computing partnership and Acadia joint venture.

Hitachi helps storage shops reclaim capacity
Jun. 17, 2009
In the ongoing quest to make more efficient use of storage capacity, Hitachi Data Systems is adding software to its enterprise storage arrays that can find unused space on storage devices from multiple vendors and ...

As economy softens, Microsoft ramps up research
May. 07, 2009
Even as the world economy languishes, Microsoft is putting an increasing focus on its research efforts in areas well beyond its traditional desktop and office software domain.

Relationship with VMware will not change, EMC chief says
Mar. 11, 2009
EMC and VMware plan to continue working together closely in the years ahead, said EMC's top executive, dispelling speculation the storage vendor might sell down its stake in the virtualization software company.

HP expands virtual storage offerings
Mar. 10, 2009
HP aims to cut the total cost of storage while allowing enterprises to keep adding capacity and forging ahead with virtualization projects in tough economic times.

CommVault CEO eyes cloud storage future
Aug. 24, 2009
Building a storage software company a decade ago was a high-risk venture, but according to CommVault CEO Robert Hammer, the company new it would succeed if it stuck to its original vision -- which now includes data ...

Dell adds SSDs in updated EqualLogic line
Mar. 25, 2009
Dell is set to update on Wednesday the virtualized storage line it acquired in its purchase of EqualLogic last year, now aiming at the needs of larger enterprises.

VMware offering 'safe passage' to Virtual Iron users
Jul. 07, 2009
VMware is trying to exploit uncertainty among customers of Virtual Iron, the virtualization vendor recently acquired by Oracle, with a new "safe passage" plan that offers Virtual Iron users steep discounts on certain ...

InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies
Nov. 16, 2009
2009's up-and-coming technologies for business that will have the greatest impact in years to come

Storage Virtualization makes Asian Paints Agile
Oct. 15, 2009
As the largest paint company in India and Asia's third-largest, the Rs 4,400-crore organization grappled with low server utilization rates at its datacenter. The company needed to move all its data - but its three ...

How green IT saves Citizens Bank $500,000 a year
Oct. 14, 2009
Eliminating inefficient cooling techniques helps Citizens Bank save loads of cash on energy costs.

Going virtual raises storage-management, procurement issues
Aug. 21, 2008
With storage virtualization coming on strong in the enterprise, here are five issues to think about before deploying.

Q&A: Christopher Crowhurst discusses Thomson Reuters' massive virtualization initiative -..
May. 26, 2009
Thomson Reuters is in the middle of a massive virtualization effort involving 20,000 physical machines growing at an alarming rate. The company is increasing storage utilization through virtualization and thin ...

Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware data center cloud unveiled
Nov. 11, 2009
Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a ...

Gartner's top 10 technologies include the cloud, mobile apps
Oct. 20, 2009
The top strategic technology in Gartner Inc.'s annual top 10 list was cloud computing, but the one that may have been of the most interest to Bill Piatt, the CIO of the International Finance Corp., was last on the list, ...

WNS Storage Virtualization Wins
Jul. 09, 2009
Faced with the spiraling cost of running separate storage for each of it's 200-plus clients, WNS Global decided to turn to virtualization. But convincing its clients that virtualized storage was secure would call on all ...

Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization
Jun. 18, 2009
Companies that have deployed virtual servers don't need to start from scratch for their desktop virtualization deployments, but there are a lot of new challenges to tackle.

NetApp agrees to $128 million gov't contracting fine
Apr. 16, 2009
Network Appliance, a California computer storage and data management vendor, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $128 million to settle contract fraud charges brought by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

Can Cisco sell 'unified' vision to a tough server crowd?
Mar. 19, 2009
Cisco's biggest challenge in gaining market acceptance for its new Unified Computing System is to convince data center managers to buy blade servers from the router giant instead of from traditional, incumbent suppliers ...

5 Steps to A Big Picture Approach to Virtualization
Mar. 11, 2009
In the current economic climate, organizations are cutting IT projects that are unable to show a strong return on investment within twelve months. But buoyed by the prospect of increased efficiency, lower costs, quick ...

Virtual servers drive storage consumption
Mar. 03, 2009
Most enterprise IT organizations have dabbled in server virtualization, which requires high storage availability and performance. This part of deployment can be challenging, according to a Forrester study.

Reinventing storage virtualization
Oct. 01, 2008
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 least disruption ...