Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

Storage is a key enabler of virtualized and cloud environments, and what better place to showcase a wide variety of hardware and software targeting such environments than at VMware Partner Exchange.

Storage technology improvements -- both in hardware and software -- are making simple work of pooling and provisioning storage for use in the virtualized world. While there's no doubt having the ...

If given the option, modern enterprises would gladly shed any and all dependencies on legacy applications running on proprietary compute, storage and networking hardware. The advantages of ...

Unlike physical appliances, which include an application and the operating system installed on a specific piece of server hardware, virtual appliances are prebuilt, preconfigured software bundles that ...

As the initial wave of virtualization projects come to a close, many are finding an odd result. CPU utilization is actually lower than when it started. Now users are looking to pile on more workloads ...

In our last entry we discussed selecting the right storage foundation and I advised that you may want to initially ignore what protocol to use. That said, part of building a storage foundation for ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

As today’s e-business applications become increasingly datacentric, storage always seems in short supply. Add the increased capacity requirements of multimedia and on-demand video being deployed more ...

Today, HP announced the intention to acquire iSCSI storage vendor LeftHand Networks for $360 Million in cash. LeftHand makes virtualized storage array software that can turn just about any server, PC ...

IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage. SVC 5.0, due to ship on Nov. 6, is the latest ...

Five months after launching its partner program, Tintri reports that it has witnessed its revenue increase by 400 percent in the Q4. The company says that 150 new enterprises signed up in the past ...