Storage optimization technologies like compression and deduplication have reduced the capacity requirements of many processes within the data center, most noticeably backup. When these data sets need ...

Flash storage and service vendor Pure Storage Inc. today announced a set of enhancements to its flagship platform, including file services that change in real time to adapt to underlying file system ...

Greg Schulz, author of several books on storage, is founder of the StorageIO Group, an IT industry analyst consultancy whose blog can be found at storageioblog.com ...

In our last entry we discussed the growing importance of efficiency. Tools and better storage systems can help make IT Administrators more efficient. The other option is to keep throwing new ...

Health systems are turning to the virtualization capability of IT platforms to gain visibility into sensitive data and streamline operations.

Virtual Storage Platform One integrates object storage with block and file, expands dense capacity with QLC flash, and extends software-defined cloud integration to provide reduced cost, improved ...

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 ...

A look at secure ways of accessing your Windows or Linux VMs, plus Azure Security Center, Azure Backup, optimizing networking for VMs, automating creation of VMs, and tips and tricks for managing VMs ...

NetApp today unveiled the latest version of its Ontap operating system, which it claims will simplify customers' storage architectures and prepare them for flash storage optimization. The new version, ...

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 ...

Mark Urdahl, CEO, and Len Rosenthal, VP Marketing, of Virtual Instruments stopped by to let me know about VirtualWisdom, a product the company launched while at EMCword. Their product is designed to ...