For that reason, Tech Data has signed an agreement to carry DataCore Software Corp.'s storage virtualization solutions. "I clearly think we're starting to see the predictions from this time last year ...

When IBM rolled out its SAN Volume Controller two years ago, it did so as part of a strategy similar to the one the company took with Linux. By embracing virtualization, thus decoupling software from ...

To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

Lenovo has unveiled a broad range of new data storage and virtualization solutions, along with data management services, ...

NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. Tech M&A deals of 2010 Sign up here. "Object-based storage is a ...

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 ...

In one of the first attempts by a top IT vendor to support network-based storage virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced plans to use new software to let IT administrators manage all ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

Business today moves faster than ever—and it’s driven by massive amounts of data to inform, enhance and accelerate decisions that can make or break a company. Data virtualization has played a pivotal ...

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 ...