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 and ...

To say that server virtualization changes everything is an understatement. In storage though I don't think we understand or give credit to just how much of a game changer storage virtualization really ...

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 ...

In my last entry and the first part of this series we discussed some of the key capabilities to look for when selecting a server virtualization strategy, but as a friend of mine pointed out I never ...

Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server. The next version of Windows Server is finally here! It's been a long time ...

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 ...

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The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

Virtualization has its roots in the mainframe era of the 1960s, and is particularly associated with IBM, whose CP-67/CMS was the first commercial mainframe operating system to support a virtual ...

Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks are in a string, etc.). What they do care about are the ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...