The fourth quarter of 2008 will mark the first of several challenging quarters for the enterprise software markets, according to Gartner. A combination of economic, technical and regional forces has ...

Storage virtualization is becoming more common as companies realize the benefits of consolidating storage-area networks and streamlining their management. As with applications and servers, storage ...

Those of you who weren’t able to attend the InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum in New York last week missed out on a fascinating show. A panel discussion I moderated on virtualization and Linux ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) prepares talented students in grades 10 through 12 to become ...

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 ...

Brian Carmody, CTO of INFINIDAT, came by to discuss his company, its technology and the release of a new product. I find it fascinating how many different takes suppliers have come up with on the ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that its NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop ® ...

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 ...

Symantec Corp.’s storage arm, Veritas, announced today that it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.’s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization ...

Virtualization is an essential component for any IT outfit looking torun an efficient, manageable, waste-not-want-not shop. It’s not justa tool for large call centers with big server farms. Evensmall- ...

The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, that can be utilized as a repository for all sorts of data in almost any range of formats. The data bits ...