Majority of firms worldwide resort to virtual server tech to improve production application workloads, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research
IBM Corp. has added support for third-party vendors to its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for the Cisco Systems Inc. MDS 9000, which will allow IT departments with mixed storage vendor environments to virtualize storage across multivendor platforms.
It's three for three for storage networking giant EMC Corp. The company announced late Monday that it plans to buy virtualization vendor VMware Inc. in a deal worth an estimated US$635 million.