Storage Virtualization

Fighting Back Against Virtual Storage Bottlenecks

root — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:49:31 -0700

Back in the old days when data center performance was largely a factor of the type and quantity of hardware available, resource management was a fairly straightforward matter. Not to say it was easy, but improvements to server, storage or networking, as

EMC Profit, Revenue Soar on Storage and VMware

root — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:46:05 -0700

Surging revenue from storage, security and virtualization brought record financial results at EMC in the fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.

Monitoring storage performance with Iometer and BurnIn Test

tludwig — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:45:41 -0700

Don't just implement storage and leave it alone. It's critical to monitor storage performance with tools such as Iometer. Compare resource metrics and run storage reporting tests.

Saving money with virtualization storage management

tludwig — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:08:47 -0700

Storage management is tricky, especially in a virtual infrastructure. You can reap virtualization cost savings with thin provisioning, a reduced port count and deduplication.

Dell Acquiring Medical Storage Firm InSite One

tludwig — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:39:37 -0700

The cloud-based service addresses some of the biggest problems in health IT: data archiving, migration, and sharing medical images across providers, systems, and locations.

Brocade balances SAN base with new data center reality

root — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:39:33 -0700

Brocade's installed base of Fibre Channel SANs is both an asset and an albatross.

Compellent Adds Virtualization, Hardware Upgrades to Its SAN

root — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:01:19 -0700

Compellent today announced the next generation of its storage area network, which adds support for non-disruptive movement of data volumes between arrays as well as a new controller that offers Fibre Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI transport protocols.

Virtualization meets its organizational limit

root — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:47:48 -0700

We've been staring a simple truth in the face for a few years but generally trying to ignore it because the implications are big. That truth: If we are to get the most out of highly virtualized, cloud-ready environments we are probably going to have to rethink the way parts of IT are organized.

NetApp's FlexPod Goes Head-to-head With EMC's Vblock

tludwig — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:23:03 -0700

NetApp's new FlexPod architecture was designed with Cisco and VMware, the two companies that also work with EMC in developing the Vblock infrastructure.

IBM Leads Cloud Computing Storage Research

tludwig — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:23:03 -0700

One of the great challenges in the Cloud Computing world is to create portable metadata, so that specific files, and not just bits and bytes, can be easily transported among storage subsystems throughout a Cloud environment that might span several countries. This is a tougher technical challenge than, say, juggling two oranges. In fact, the EU thinks it's at least a $20 million challenge, so has funded roughly that amount to IBM and several European companies to research it.