For that reason, Tech Data has signed an agreement to carry DataCore Software Corp.'s storage virtualization solutions. "I clearly think we're starting to see the predictions from this time last year ...

To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

When IBM rolled out its SAN Volume Controller two years ago, it did so as part of a strategy similar to the one the company took with Linux. By embracing virtualization, thus decoupling software from ...

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 ...

NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. Tech M&A deals of 2010 Sign up here. "Object-based storage is a ...

Fast data workloads include mission-critical primary applications requiring consistently low latencies, while big data workloads are composed of applications that tend to be less latency sensitive and ...

In one of the first attempts by a top IT vendor to support network-based storage virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced plans to use new software to let IT administrators manage all ...

Yesterday, HP announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a leading provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. The deal came in at ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

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 ...

Business today moves faster than ever—and it’s driven by massive amounts of data to inform, enhance and accelerate decisions that can make or break a company. Data virtualization has played a pivotal ...