I’m always surprised that so many people still want to build their private and public cloud on logical units, served out by Fibre Channel SANs. From my point of view, we should have ditched the LUN ...

I'm in a bind! I've inherited a bunch of UCS chassis/blades that connect to an EMC VNX5600 SAN. The blades are running ESXi 5.5 and none of them have local storage; they all boot from LUNs on the SAN.

Most enterprises have already virtualized existing physical servers (or are contemplating virtualization of their physical server environment) using server virtualization hypervisors. Today, the most ...

The University of Leicester has ditched its Dell-based SAN backup targets and moved to Cloudian object storage in a move that has seen it cut reliance on Fibre Channel fabrics and LUN storage for ...

What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out… In my previous post, Designing Cloud Storage? Ditch the ...

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday expanded its StoreVirtual software-defined storage platform with new tiering capabilities and a new licensing system to provide partners and customers with more flexibility ...

VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday expanded its StoreVirtual virtualized storage line with a hybrid storage array, bringing tiered SSD and hard disk to its SMB customers and channel partners. The new HP ...

With SANs and NAS becoming the norm for both the enterprise and personal computing (welcome to the cloud), there's very little that IT staffs can expect users to manage all on their own. As an ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as ...