Storage virtualization in any of its many forms presents an interesting dilemma for IT folks. How does one select a virtualization technology and utilize its benefits without locking-in long term?

Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. Storage virtualization ...

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

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Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (www.interarbor-solutions.com), an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier ...

We all have probably seen situations in which someone creates a new EC2 instance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and finds that while the instance performed really well at first, it gets slower ...

As the hype about containers has mounted over the past year, it has raised questions about what this technology – which is for packaging applications – means for traditional management and ...