Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

Storage vendors are out in force at the VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Orlando, Fla. And with good reason. Storage is a keystone of a virtualized IT environment and the move towards cloud ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

Storage technology improvements -- both in hardware and software -- are making simple work of pooling and provisioning storage for use in the virtualized world. While there's no doubt having the ...

EMC provides industry's first and only end-to-end support of VMware vCenter™ and the ability to map virtual machine to storage and to self service storage provisioning across EMC's Storage Platforms ...

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 ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the ...

Storage virtualization has several key IT benefits in addition to improved resource utilization. For one, it allows data to be moved to any storage device in the pool when subsystems fail or are ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...