According to EMC CEO Joe Tucci, the acquisition is intended to hasten the convergence of server and storage virtualization. According to VMware, the acquisition provides its 370 employees with access ...

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One of the most expensive components of a server virtualization project is the storage which it is attached to. This is one of the reasons that VMworld seems more like a storage event than a server ...

Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries. Virtualization software makes up the ...

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Gregg Holzrichter, Virsto's VP Marketing, and Eric Burgener, VP Product Management, were kind enough to stop by and brief me on version 2.0 of the company's Virsto for vSphere. Due to an illness in my ...

While there are some software products that are appliance-agnostic, most vendors bundle the virtualization software with their own storage. In order to make a fair comparison, CRN Test Center ...

The EMC/IBM rivalry for top mind share in the storage industry is spilling out into storage virtualization. In this market, each aims to convince customers that it offers the best means of turning ...

VMware’s vSAN (virtual SAN) architecture is designed to be a significant step into software-defined-computing, where the vSAN component is responsible for providing software-defined storage.