If 2007 was the year of server virtualization, then 2008 may be the year storage virtualization finds its way into many data centers. Make no mistake about it -- server virtualization has left an ...

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When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice before ...

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

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 applications and ...

In part one of this series, we looked at selecting an enterprise virtualization platform, and at some of the benefits gained. Now we’re going to look at some of the challenges involved in selecting ...