As part of CRN’s 2025 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. It used to be the value of storage technology depended on ...

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, ...

Storage virtualization isn’t a new concept, but it’s getting a lot of attention lately as the top storage vendors launch next-generation virtualization wares. The vendors vary on their approaches – ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

The economy is down, IT spending is uncertain, and businesses are looking for efficiency from every IT dollar they spend. Yet those companies -- profitable or not -- continue to collect, store, and ...

NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. “Object-based storage is a new and emerging approach to storing ...

The benefit of virtualizing x86 servers is clear: break the link between software and hardware and create the foundation for a more dynamic, flexible and efficient data center. With the market for ...

If you only had a single word to describe what 2005 meant in the world of servers and storage, that word would be “virtualization.” Announcements from IT vendors about what they were virtualizing or ...

In just a few short years, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, has proven its worth in the large enterprise and traveled that well-worn path from pricey boutique solution to ...