storage virtualization

DataCore teaches SANsymphony-V to play in the cloud

DataCore has upgraded its SANsymphony-V storage virtualization and management software to make it better suited to large...

Hitachi Data Systems, EMC divided about federation

EMC’s new Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) for VMAX arrays allows customers to run other EMC platforms or competing storage systems behind VMAX, much...

DataCore adds support for cloud as storage tier

When DataCore added automated tiering to its

Dot Hill acquires Cloverleaf

Storage systems vendor Dot Hill acquired privately held storage virtualization software maker Cloverleaf Communications Inc. this week for $12 million in cash and stock as part of its plan to focus more on the management of its arrays. Cloverleaf's Intelligent Storage Network (iSN) products are...

DataCore adds support for logical volumes up to 1 PB

DataCore kicked off 2010 with updates to its SANSymphony and SANMelody storage virtualization software, adding support for logical volumes up to 1 PB and the Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) standard. The expansion of logical volume support from 2 TB to up to 1 PB is made possible by...

Sanrad to add QoS to storage virtualization products

Sanrad, maker of the iSCSI storage virtualization gateway V-Switch and virtual server HA storage subsystem V-Stor, is adding a new quality of service feature to both its products. Sanrad VP of product management Allon Cohen, "Storage-intensive I/O can be a barrier to virtualization of some...

NetApp V-Series supports Texas Memory SSDs; users yawn

NetApp blogger and chief technical architect Val Bercovici, leaked the news yesterday that NetApp's V-Series storage gateways can now front Texas Memory Systems' RamSan-500 solid-state storage arrays.

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VMware vs. Partners: chatter about conflict increases

Our friends at Homeland Security are known to use the term "chatter" to refer to the level of terrorist communications they're intercepting at any given time. Any large consortium of humans will have its own chatter, with its own quirky patterns and trends, and the storage market is no...

Slowdown could push VMware into storage market

It seems crazy, and in many ways it is. The company that essentially created the hottest market in IT has said it will grow 50% over the next year, and the company that owns it has projected $15 billion in revenues for 2008. And yet as of this morning, Company #1, VMware, has seen its stock drop...

Storage and VMware walk virtual tightropes

It all started with a pretty run-of-the-mill partnership agreement. FalconStor announced its storage virtualization, snapshot and replication software will support Virtual Iron's virtual servers last week, and my SearchServerVirtualization.com colleague Alex Barrett and I agreed to take...