The Modern Virtualized Data Center

Data center resources have traditionally been underutilized while drawing enormous amounts of power and taking up valuable floor space. Storage virtualization has been a positive evolutionary step in the data center, driving consolidation of these resources to maximize utilization and power savings, as well as to simplify management and maintenance. With all of the benefits of virtualization comes a wholesale change in the way that you must plan for implementation, management, backup and recovery. This whitepaper discusses ways to provision your storage in the same manner as you provision your virtualized servers. The result is better serve...