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Storage Virtualisation
News Storage virtualisation aims to fix this. This negates the main benefits of storage virtualisation, simplified management -- in the ideal case, one management console covering all storage across the enterprise.
[April 3, 2003, 20:25]
Virtualisation storage options explained
News A robust, scalable, highly-available virtualised environment can save an organisation significant time and money, but you need to plan your virtualisation storage strategy carefully and decide which approach is best for your company.
[July 26, 2006, 15:45]
Top 10 Tips for Server and Storage Virtualisation
Blog Server and Storage virtualisation often coincides with consolidation projects to reduce infrastructure and IT management costs. Storage virtualisation enables data to be deployed in a single pool of data, accessible by a virtualised server farm.
[July 27, 2009, 9:17]
What does storage virtualisation really mean?
Blog Comment Like Manek says - i kind of see storage virtualisation like server virtualisation in that you dont really necessarily know where your data / VM physically is, you just know its there. In the same way that server virtualisation bods are talking...
[October 27, 2009, 9:59]
What does storage virtualisation really mean?
Blog But while server virtualisation is now a well-known technique for saving money by increasing server CPU utilisation, storage virtualisation remains a hazy concept. Here at Storage network World in Frankfurt, the most - er - innovative, but perhaps...
[October 27, 2009, 9:57]
IBM adds flash to storage virtualisation
News IBM has updated its storage virtualisation product, the SAN Volume Controller, to support solid-state drives. Scheduled for release on 6 November, SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 5.0 is the first to integrate the technology into a storage...
[October 19, 2009, 9:34]
IBM sneers at EMC's storage virtualisation
News Storage vendor EMC this week released details about its upcoming entry into the storage virtualisation market, provoking an uncharacteristically pugnacious response from seasoned campaigner, IBM. EMC's technology will compete with existing...
[May 19, 2005, 8:55]
EMC: beware the storage virtualisation quick fix
News One of the really hot areas of development in the storage world is virtualisation. Today with a product like Invista, storage virtualisation is really quite robust. For example, one of the basic architectural considerations of doing storage network...
[April 10, 2006, 14:40]
What does storage virtualisation really mean?
Blog Comment I'd be interested to know what these slippery sliding vendor's first line is when they try and extol the virtues of storage virtualisation. The door is open for more sales of storage virtualisation management software then - or has HP already...
[October 27, 2009, 9:23]
IBM sneers at EMC's storage virtualisation
Talkback Virtual Storage using Atomic Holographic Optical Nanostorage will make data storage affordable to the worlds populations. Something IBM and EMC have NO understanding of.http://colossalstorage.net/
[May 21, 2005, 16:47]
What does storage virtualisation really mean?
Blog Comment I hope so. I note there's a nod in that direction with Vista/Win7's concept of libraries: logical folders with no real existence other than as pointers to some other areas on the disk. Pity MS screwed up by being amazingly restrictive about what...
[October 27, 2009, 17:22]
What does storage virtualisation really mean?
Blog Comment A single level store blurs the line between virtual memory and virtual storage. You could go way, way back to the AS/400 or its predecessor, the System/38, where there was no concept of separate memory or disks, just a "Single Level Store".
[October 27, 2009, 13:32]
Nexsan adds storage virtualisation to Maid
News Storage company Nexsan on Tuesday debuted a new version of its archiving system, Assureon 6.0, which builds in scalability and security features, such as the ability to separate archiving between users.
[October 8, 2008, 13:03]
Sun extends virtualisation to EMC storage
News Sun says it now offers virtualisation support for EMC Symmetrix DMX 800, 1000, 2000, 3000 and Symmetrix 3000, 5000 and 8000 series storage devices on the StorEdge 9990 system. Storage virtualisation, in which several physical disks appear to be one...
[January 27, 2005, 12:05]
EMC's V-Max builds up to petabytes of virtual storage
News EMC on Tuesday launched a storage array, the Symmetrix V-Max, that uses a new virtualisation architecture to provide a linked pool of up to three petabytes of storage. The V-Max array comes with built-in storage virtualisation, using software from...
[April 14, 2009, 14:26]
HP refreshes small-business portfolio
News The company announced the revised portfolio on Thursday, introducing new storage products, thin clients, printers and virtualisation tools. HP is introducing a bundle for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that want to move into...
[May 29, 2009, 15:49]
EMC upgrades Invista for virtualisation
News EMC, the owner of virtualisation software company VMware, has launched the latest version of its Invista virtualisation product for networked storage. It is the company's first virtualisation product for use with storage area networks (SANs).
[December 10, 2007, 0:01]
IBM turns virtual storage into a reality
News IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualisation products in July, the latest step in the industry's push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. According to IBM's Truskowski, virtualisation also promises to reduce the burden of...
[June 3, 2003, 11:56]
Sun joins the extended VMware family
News Sun has become the latest vendor to sign up to deliver VMware server and storage virtualisation products. Earlier this week, VMware also announced an agreement to turn its software interfaces into standards that rivals can use, a move that could...
[August 11, 2005, 14:10]
HP targets efficiency with virtual storage
News HP on Tuesday announced new storage virtualisation products designed to reduce the need for customers to upgrade their existing storage. Added to that, for customers who have this messy heterogeneous platform, we have the SAN virtualisation...
[March 10, 2009, 16:51]
