
Virtualization
Survey: Virtual Storage Emerges as Key Cloud Need
Storage is a critical component of cloud services as providers seek to differentiate their offerings via storage platforms designed to handle more virtual workloads, an industry survey concludes. That ...Full Article
Open Source Effort Targets Faster Nets, Storage
Networking is becoming a bottleneck as enterprises store, move and sift through vast quantities of structured and unstructured data from a growing list of sources. In an effort to ...Full Article
Hybrid Storage Seen as Safer Bet For Virtual Workloads
Akin to their cloud deployments, enterprises are hedging their bets on storage by adopting a mix of storage options for virtualized infrastructure in datacenters. Hence, a new vendor survey ...Full Article
HPE, Microsoft Join Forces on Hybrid Cloud
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft are extending their cloud partnership with a hyper-converged platform aimed at capturing a larger share of the market for hybrid cloud computing. Separately, ...Full Article
VMware, New Dell Unit, Refreshes Cloud Platform
VMware rolled out a batch of upgrades to its hybrid cloud management platform a day after it was merged as part of EMC Corp. with Dell Inc. VMware (NYSE: ...Full Article
VMware Targets Synergies in Dell-EMC Deal
The "hyper-convergence" of computing and storage accelerated with confirmation that Dell Inc. and technology investor Silver Lake Partners will acquire storage leader EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) for an estimated ...Full Article
How to Optimize Your Toolset to Tackle Today’s Network Issues
While SDN and IoT will undoubtedly alter the networking landscape, they shouldn’t distract from other business and tech trends that impact enterprise networks right now.Full Article
Containers: The Case for VM Coexistence
Today, corporations have the technical flexibility to customize the datacenter to better fit their long- and short-term business goals. They are no longer locked into legacy infrastructure upgrades as ...Full Article
Why Go Out the NSX Limb? That’s Where the Fruit Is
Gartner identified it as one of the top 10 strategic technology trends to watch in 2015. IDC estimated the market will reach $8 billion by 2018. HP found a 222 percent ROI ...Full Article
PernixData Decouples Performance, Management from Storage
PernixData aims to further simplify storage managers' jobs with today's release of FVP version 3.0, Freedom, and software platform Architect. The company's technology decouples storage performance and management functions ...Full Article