Oracle has announced the StorageTek Virtual Library Extension (VLE), one of the industry's first highly scalable second tiers of disk storage that optimizes tape processing in mainframe environments.

Oracle announced the latest generation of its mainframe virtual tape system, which the company says is the first and only mainframe virtual tape storage system to provide a single point of management ...

A team of mainframe computing veterans today is launching a set of products for streamlining access to big iron data and announcing $2.2 million in seed financing. VirtualZ Computing Corp. is ...

‘One of the hardest things for people to digest is that we're not making a copy of the data. We're not replicating the data. We're not touching the data. The data stays on the mainframe. So now ...

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If you thought server virtualization was easy, think again. The limitations of today’s tools could result in management headaches, says analyst firm Saugatuck Technology. IT managers well-versed in ...

Storage vendor EMC today announced it has completed the purchase of privately-help virtual tape library (VTL) vendor Bus-Tech for an undisclosed amount. Bus-Tech, a Bedford, Mass.-based firm with 45 ...

VMware launched an upgrade to its core software platform on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large. “Virtualization is ...

Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks are in a string, etc.). What they do care about are the ...