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 ...

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 ...

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 this entry we will return to our series on selecting storage solutions for the virtualized server environment focusing now on dealing with capacity, storing the virtual server images and all their ...

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 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, ...

After a virtualization vendor has recommended storage virtualization to your client, the follow-up conversation might go something like this: "So what you're saying is you want me to take down all my ...

We all have probably seen situations in which someone creates a new EC2 instance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and finds that while the instance performed really well at first, it gets slower ...

Network Appliance Inc.'s (NetApp) senior vice president and general manager of the Emerging Products Group, Jay Kidd, is on a whirlwind tour of North America. Last week he could be seen heading up a ...