The developer, Mountain View, Calif.-based NeoPath Networks, provides file storage virtualization solutions, which CEO Alan Baratz said decouples the file system from physical storage devices to allow ...

Q: Whats the difference between “storage virtualization” and “file virtualization”? A: At one level pretty much everything in storage these days is virtualized to some degree. Low level standards like ...

Last week I wrote about the new version of F5 Networks’ WebAccelerator software, which can accelerate Web application traffic between two Big-IP devices. Shortly after unveiling that product upgrade, ...

The $210 million cash deal is expected to close in September. Acopia is a Lowell, Mass., file virtualization technology vendor. Dan Matte, senior vice president of marketing for F5, said his company ...

In our last entry we talked about the use of cloud storage as a backup target, but another ideal use case for cloud storage is to use it as an archive area. Almost every IT organization has old data ...

In the first week of May, three storage vendors announced enhancements or plans for products that support storage virtualization. The three announcements from VERITAS, EMC, and IBM are signs of the ...

Open source file system vendor Gluster released its Storage Platform, integrating a file system, an operating system and a management UI to create a cluster that can store petabytes of information and ...

As the network has become the center of the IT infrastructure, it has created often-unanticipated benefits that are helping to drive productivity and new capabilities in the workplace. One of those ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

To say that server virtualization changes everything is an understatement. In storage though I don't think we understand or give credit to just how much of a game changer storage virtualization really ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, ...

The fires of hot topics are usually stoked with hype, but in the case of storage virtualization, the topic actually exceeds the hype. Let me explain why. It's not surprising that many vendors are ...