There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: ...

The next version of Microsoft's on-premises suite of management software is here. System Center 2016 is full of new abilities. This article will look at what's new and enhanced specifically for ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) prepares talented students in grades 10 through 12 to become ...

The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

Today's world is defined by an overwhelming variety of technologies designed to simplify our lives. So much so, that they become an integral part of our daily routines. From the invention of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Managing and measuring costs has taken on a new urgency with the emergence of virtualization and new computing models. With virtualization, customers get a shared infrastructure that shifts the cost ...

The storage virtualization industry is repeating an error it made long ago in the early days of industry standard x86 system: a focus on processing performance to the ...

Demanding IT trends such as cloud computing, mobility and Big Data are changing the way enterprises manage data centers. But many of these challenges can be better accommodated by modernizing the data ...