The $210 million cash deal is expected to close in September. Acopia is a Lowell, Mass., file virtualization technology vendor. Dan Matte, senior vice president of marketing for F5, said his company ...

Last week I wrote about the new version of F5 Networks’ WebAccelerator software, which can accelerate Web application traffic between two Big-IP devices. Shortly after unveiling that product upgrade, ...

As the network has become the center of the IT infrastructure, it has created often-unanticipated benefits that are helping to drive productivity and new capabilities in the workplace. One of those ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...

The developer, Mountain View, Calif.-based NeoPath Networks, provides file storage virtualization solutions, which CEO Alan Baratz said decouples the file system from physical storage devices to allow ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

Virtualization isn’t a new concept, but now that organizations need to cope with fast-growing storage requirements and enable their administrators to manage more ...

Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries. Virtualization software makes up the ...

To say that server virtualization changes everything is an understatement. In storage though I don't think we understand or give credit to just how much of a game changer storage virtualization really ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...

These days, the storage demands of users and applications are spiraling out of control in many enterprises. Additional disks and storage subsystems are frequently implemented to meet demands. But ...

Organizations are using virtualization to manage their cloud environment effectively. Here is a rundown of the different types and what each can offer. In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization ...