It's no secret that
data centers are faced with exponential
storage growth, increasing operational costs, power and cooling limitations, and the need to provision and bring new applications online more rapidly to
support critical
business needs, many customers look to virtualization strategies to ease the
management burden. SRM technology can address the demands and management complexities that virtualization presents. Virtualization, by definition, can apply to operating systems, applications and
storage arrays. This session will identify and elaborate on the various virtualization categories, and talk about how SRM technology can enable IT organizations to manage
storage in the virtual enterprise.
Storage virtualization introduces a level of abstraction that sits between application servers and physical
storage resources to provide centralized volume
management and non-disruptive
data mobility. These capabilities help
storage managers improve productivity, capacity-utilization and service levels. Its unique position between application servers and
storage resources demands the highest levels of availability,
performance and
data integrity. This session will review the benefits of virtualization and how it improves productivity, capacity utilization and service levels. It will also discuss how second generation,
network based
storage virtualization can be used to meet the demands imposed by its central position in the I/O stack.