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by Lori Widmer on December 27, 2007
Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Take storage virtualization, for example. According to at least one expert, too much virtualization in too many places can be prohibitive in cost, not...
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by Lori Widmer on December 20, 2007
The debate surrounding why or why not you should be virtualizing your storage network has just been heated up yet again. EMC's release of its new and improved Invista solution has industry...
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by Lori Widmer on November 26, 2007
Looking for the ability to slice and dice your physical storage arrays and maybe gain a bit of security in the deal? Check out the latest offering from 3PAR, which released its Virtual Domains...
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by Lori Widmer on August 27, 2007
A low-cost virtual tape library that's affordable and comes with a dense footprint - is that possible? Sun Microsystems says yes. They've introduced their latest Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape...
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by Lori Widmer on August 22, 2007
It's such a no-brainer, it's brilliant. John Shessley over at Tech Republic writes about how he's handling virtualization to reallocate storage assets. What's brilliant is that...
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by Lori Widmer on August 15, 2007
How often have you heard mention of the need for virtualization? Wow, that many? Make room for one more push for what may be the inevitable - I/O virtualization. But are hardware and software vendors...
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by Lori Widmer on August 08, 2007
Overland Storage, Inc. announces its new appliance - the REO™ 4500, the latest addition to its next-generation REO series of versatile, disk-based backup, recovery and virtual tape library (VTL)...
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by Lori Widmer on June 16, 2007
It's been said that everything old is new again, and nothing could be more true than that with system virtualization. The introduction of virtual machine and hypervisor technology aboard x86...
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by Lori Widmer on May 25, 2007
How many articles have you read and vendor testimonials have you listened to that promote the virtualization of hardware? That many, huh? Yet now one company is claiming that virtualization is...
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by Lori Widmer on April 23, 2007
How will your world change in just a few years? According to a new Gartner study, virtualization technology will go mainstream in under three years. Gone will be physical servers, network switches...
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StorageMojo » Google's Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I: I know full well that I lack the background to *really* understand this sort of system, but I love the idea of it, I love...
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Server room menu: Server virtualization in four styles: "...any user entertaining the idea of moving servers into a virtual world are best served by avoiding the urge to get caught up in the...
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Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies - Computerworld: Users continue to avoid network-based block virtualization like the plague. Yet what I can't understand is why you would implement a...
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Open Source grids could be the answer; what's the question? Even with the open source virtualization/grid potential there is still a lot of talk about how exactly we can leverage all that...
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Going virtual cuts costs at Palm Beach college - Computerworld: " Palm beach Community College is going virtual: virtual servers, virtual network and virtual storage." "The...
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Virtualized storage, real rewards - Computerworld: With costs escalating, Wood needed a way to slow deployment of new storage hardware and make better use of the disparate hardware he already had....
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The rise of the virtual machines If there is one technology that took hold in the enterprise in 2005, it's virtualization. The software moved from test and development and into the data center...
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