Discover how Virtual Data Rooms (VDRs) offer secure online document storage, critical for M&A due diligence, and explore their many business applications and alternatives.

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...

Here’s a look at the top storage virtualization vendors, their products, pricing and sample customers. Product: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.3 Services provided: IBM System Storage SAN ...

In the first week of May, three storage vendors announced enhancements or plans for products that support storage virtualization. The three announcements from VERITAS, EMC, and IBM are signs of the ...

Over the last month or so, I've spoken with multiple suppliers of various types of storage virtualization technology. Sometimes these suppliers use the term "storage virtualization"; other times, they ...

There are many ways to consume storage in the cloud. Using a virtual appliance version of a storage array maker’s product is one of them. You can get cloud storage services from other providers too.

Q: Whats the difference between “storage virtualization” and “file virtualization”? A: At one level pretty much everything in storage these days is virtualized to some degree. Low level standards like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtualisation is a cornerstone of today’s enterprise IT architecture, but virtual machines pose a number of performance issues, despite the benefits they bring in cost and efficiency. Storage is a ...

Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management. As with applications and servers, storage ...

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 ...