Your data is exploding! You need more disk space now! You have a disk system that is over-priced because your disk vendor knows it’s more trouble to migrate your data than to pay the extra cost… you should be mad that someone prices their product based on how trapped you are with your data on their disk system. Sound familiar? Do they have you convinced you have to pay that much money for a reliable disk system? This is a marketing strategy and is designed to maximize their profits, not …

If you haven’t already, right now is the time to virtualize your storage environment. If you’re still unsure aboutthe value of storage virtualization, consider the following advantages:

Better Storage Utilization - With a virtual storage environment, you can get much better performance out of your disk sub systems by combining all those spindles that were previously dedicated to each server. Second, when you have all those resources combined, you can better allocate your capacity across your environment in addition to benefiting from technologies like dynamic capacity expansion and thin provisioning.
Easier to Manage Your …

Storage virtualization is not a new concept – a number of vendors have been offering storage virtualization as an effective means of managing storage growth while extending the life of existing storage resources for sometime now. The challenge for many IT departments (and management) is to understand the true value that storage virtualization brings and to translate that value into real dollars.
“ROI” is one of those terms that is thrown around to demonstrate value. Tech Validate did a survey late last year of HDS end-users that quantified actual return on …