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

The economy is down, IT spending is uncertain, and businesses are looking for efficiency from every IT dollar they spend. Yet those companies -- profitable or not -- continue to collect, store, and ...

After a virtualization vendor has recommended storage virtualization to your client, the follow-up conversation might go something like this: "So what you're saying is you want me to take down all my ...

Storage virtualization in any of its many forms presents an interesting dilemma for IT folks. How does one select a virtualization technology and utilize its benefits without locking-in long term?

NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. “Object-based storage is a new and emerging approach to storing ...

Storage virtualization isn’t a new concept, but it’s getting a lot of attention lately as the top storage vendors launch next-generation virtualization wares. The vendors vary on their approaches – ...

Having all but won the Fibre Channel switch battle, Brocade Communications Systems has set its sight on a new market. The switch maker today revealed seven storage management software companies have ...

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 ...