Storage virtualization is an effort to abstract the function of data storage from the procedures and physical process by which the data is actually stored.

A virtualization solution centralizes data management and services into the storage fabric. Historically, these functions were performed on the server or the array or a combination of both.

In last week’s newsletter, we discussed the use of virtualization as a way to save on storage costs. This week, we’ll cover the nuts and bolts of how to realize these savings.

* Benefits of storage virtualization It’s almost an axiom that one can never have too much storage capacity. Year after year enterprises generate mountains of data requiring new storage capacity ...

As cloud-based data grows in size, scale and complexity, businesses may struggle to keep up without tools and processes built specifically for the cloud, which includes data virtualization.

Plus, he says, most iSCSI deployments are in smaller enterprises that don’t use the tiered storage or storage lifecycle management techniques that these tools address.

Storage virtualization is an industry trend that could affect how enterprises deal with data, Gartner analyst Chris Wolf said. In addition to VMware’s latest strides, Microsoft is doing similar ...

We are currently in our RFI phase of looking at storage virtualization and I wanted to get some hive mind opinions. We narrowed down our vendor/product selection to the following. Each of these ...

With new Virtual Matrix Architecture technology, data storage systems can scale to 2 Petabytes, company says.

The vendor addresses what it calls a need for more data center consolidation and virtualization with new storage hardware and software offerings.