Appliances may well be a big part of the future of the datacenter. While virtualization and the tools to provision on the fly mean that new servers and applications can be quickly delivered, it's ...

Sir Winston Churchill once described Russia as a "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Today, one could apply that label to the nebulous area of storage virtualization — specifically the ...

A new study from Saugatuck Technology says server virtualization will have the single largest impact on budgets for IT hardware and support through 2010. The survey, titled "The Many Faces of ...

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 ...

Server virtualization, have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not a lot of people have knowledge of server ...

The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

Network Appliance’s announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or ...

Networked-attached storage devices are a common tool for saving files throughout the government. NAS’ objective is to streamline storage. Instead of adding storage to every server, NAS lets multiple ...

Virtualization isn’t a new concept, but now that organizations need to cope with fast-growing storage requirements and enable their administrators to manage more ...

EMC Wednesday announced that it has agreed to acquire Rainfinity in a deal valued at less than $100 million. Rainfinity makes software that virtualizes network-attached storage (NAS) devices and file ...