Software-defined storage and storage virtualization are different sides of the same coin. Both abstract storage and simplify managing storage resources, but SDS is geared toward hardware independence, ...

When it comes to storage virtualization, everyone from the top vendors to enterprise users talks about it, but nobody does much about it. That is, until now. The major storage companies are delivering ...

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 ...

Last week, IBM revealed that it had passed over 1,000 customers of its storage virtualization software and spun the achievement to defiantly taunt storage market leader EMC for not yet releasing a ...

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 ...

This is the second of a four-part series on block-based storage virtualization technology. In the first story, “Block-level storage virtualization: Reasons to implement it,” we explain the reasons why ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...