Some vendors are adding virtualized storage features, such as thin provisioning, to their non-virtualized offerings. No wonder even storage pro are confused about storage virtualization.

Storage Performance A Big Impact On Virtualization Camberley Bates, managing director of analyst firm Evaluator Group, hosted a panel during the COMDEXvirtual conference on how storage performance ...

Sanbolic observed that many organizations that embark on the journey to a more virtualized environment don't think about how that move impacts their storage infrastructure. The company's product ...

The More, the Merrier Most school districts that turn to virtualization start with their servers and then, seeing the benefits, begin considering other forms too. As analyst David Hill points out, ...

Companies such as virtualization manufacturer VMware and storage management and security manufacturer Symantec offer features and tools to help allocate, monitor and manage storage. Tip 2: Use ...

Clabby Analytics – “Virtualization” refers to placing systems, storage, and/or network resources into logical groups or virtualized “pools”. These resources can then be exploited by ...

We found that in a lot of businesses they may have as little as 20 percent utilization of their storage capacity. By going to storage virtualization, they can have a 300 percent increase in that ...

Solution providers that have been working with server virtualization and storage virtualization are starting to see the benefits of yet another type of virtualization that ties the two together ...

From backup to live storage, a single, virtualized storage-area network does it all for a Florida veterinary school.

VMware may be expanding into thin provisioning and virtualized storage, but DataCore Software has been at this now for 10 years ...

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 ...

Tip 5: Consider tiered storage. Tiered storage isn't absolutely necessary for managing virtual storage, but virtualization offers an excellent opportunity to improve efficiency and cut costs by ...