Storage virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 provides over 1,000 new features, enhancements and improvements, such as a power user portal for self-service provisioning, RESTful API, local storage and more.

Virtualization efforts need to cut across multiple technology areas for maximum business impact. Storage platforms that support virtualized servers are imperatives if enterprises are to gain the full benefits of virtualization.

Virtualization is hot because businesses believe they can reduce cost and improve tech utilization through virtualization. But many approach virtualization for the wrong reasons. Peter Pan gives potent advise on the steps that would improve your chances of successfully introduction virtualization into your data center.

One company's path from no disaster recovery to a SAN-based DR strategy was driven by the CIO's unshakeable belief that storage is the first principle of a good data center.

HP has introduced an integrated system that allows SMBs to deploy virtualization by transforming internal disk drives in the servers into highly available shared storage.