In this podcast, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization. Find out about PCIe bus extenders' advantages and disadvantages for users, the necessary steps, requirements to implementing them, and more. Listen to this podcast to learn more. 

This issue looks at two areas of pain, gain and risk in server virtualization: I/O bottlenecks and virtualizing email systems. 

Watch this video for a brief overview of the future-ready Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays, focusing on the innovations, such as UltraFlex modular I/O and virtual provisioning of this highly flexible storage platform. 

The O-ISM3 is The Open Group framework for managing information security and information in the Open Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) wider context. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization's business requirements. 

Requiring a high performance, scalable and reliable networking infrastructure at its new facilities, O'Keeffe & Swartz turned to HP. With support for IP telephony a requirement, an HP Converged Infrastructure was deployed, along with Mitel IP telephony and HP Networking Software. 

Protecting networks from malware can seem like an insurmountable challenge. In this 30-day free trial download, see how Lumension's Sanctuary Device and Application Control enable only authorized applications to run and only authorized devices to connect to a laptop or desktop, removing the risk of data leakage and malware. 

This product brief showcases a processor that improves mission-critical reliability and optimizes the performance of your most demanding applications. Learn about its key features as well as how this platform has evolved over time. 

In the September 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Eric Siebert clears up some of the confusion as he looks at the characteristics of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and reviews the pros and cons of each for virtual environments. 

This white paper introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud. 

Explore the new storage features in VMware vSphere 5.0 that can help your organization reduce complexity while achieving greater scalability. Discover how Storage DRS simplifies provisioning of VMs and monitoring of the storage environment with smart virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity. 

To support these data-intensive applications, the Orlando Magic needed a storage area network (SAN) with I/O performance fast enough to play and stream both standard and high-definition (HD) video. Read this case study to see their solution. 

Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression enables the highest levels of data compression and provides enterprises with tremendous cost-savings and performance improvements due to reduced I/O. Read this white paper to learn more.