Using Storage Virtualization to Meet the Challenges of Rapid Data Growth by Hitachi Data Systems
For businesses around the world, data volume is growing exponentially. Each day, companies gather and store more information to meet business and regulatory requirements. It all adds up to exploding data growth—and persistent storage problems.
Historically, smaller and midsized organizations have met the data challenge simply by buying additional servers with attached disk storage. Larger organizations have deployed storage area networks (SANs) and started to propagate their data centers with monolithic dedicated storage systems. While this stopgap approach solves immediate storage needs, it just delays the long-term solution. It leaves you with islands of storage, each dedicated ...