storage virtualization

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels

As customers' storage needs scale up, storage virtualization advances and customers explore cloud computing, NetApp seeks a new competitive edge.

Don't throw caution to the wind, but putting data protection in the server-to-storage path and using disk virtualization makes a good alternative to legacy tape backups.

Mennonite Mutual Aid successfully transitioned from a sprawling Windows and IBM server environment with direct-attached storage to a tiered, virtual infrastructure with a remote disaster recovery (DR) site. It accomplished this by working with its partner, MapleTronics Computers, to implement FalconStor Software's and Network Storage Server (NSS) and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) plus VMware.

Server virtualisation company, Vizioncore has released a product that will enable users to reclaim unused space on Windows virtual machines.

Virtualization is transforming the data center and solution providers are migrating their customers to a virtual environment to create a more flexible IT infrastructure, reduce costs and maximize storage resources. At the same time, however, virtualization introduces some new concerns.

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 harder and took more time, so we developed RAID, network-attached storage and storage-area networks. Still, managing and maintaining thousands of disk drives became an ever more onerous task. The latest answer to this dilemma is storage virtualization.