Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

As virtualization becomes more pervasive across the data center, and more tier-one and tier-two applications are migrated off physical hosts and onto virtual server platforms, the tight integration ...

Some people see virtualization as a hindrance to performance with no place in HPC. Other people see it as the future of accessibility in HPC, opening up new modes of parallel computing for a ...

The storage virtualization space is crackling with life these days, and it's not hard to see why. Not only does storage touch all branches of the virtualization tree, it's also a space where ...

Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server. The next version of Windows Server is finally here! It's been a long time ...

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, ...

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 ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry?s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...

Tuesday EMC unveiled the Virtual Matrix Architecture (V-Max), which the company said enables storage systems to scale up to hundreds of thousands of Terabytes of storage and tens of millions of ...

Anne Rawland Gabriel is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. At Florida Atlantic University, ...

Ken Steinhardt has just taken over as the chief technology officer of EMC's customer liaison organization, at a time when the storage industry is experiencing a period of particularly explosive growth ...