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 ...

Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. Storage virtualization ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Virtualization is a very broad topic that includes mechanisms to move many types of functions into a logical environment that can have enhanced characteristics over physical environments. Access to ...

Storage virtualization in any of its many forms presents an interesting dilemma for IT folks. How does one select a virtualization technology and utilize its benefits without locking-in long term?

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

Storage virtualization is often billed as what I call a "Time To" product, meaning that it reduces the time it takes IT to respond to demands on the business. Virtualization shortens the amount of ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

We all have probably seen situations in which someone creates a new EC2 instance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and finds that while the instance performed really well at first, it gets slower ...

Like just about every other area of the IT market, suppliers of storage are always doing their level best to one-up their competitors, seeking ways to out-gun the others in the areas of storage ...

As the hype about containers has mounted over the past year, it has raised questions about what this technology – which is for packaging applications – means for traditional management and ...