The brave new world of virtualization, and the implications for storage
The world, it seems, has gone virtual.
The boon in virtualization in the data center in recent years has been huge, and the reasons are clear. Virtualization not only saves resources, it creates them. IT staff, able to provision virtual machines quickly and to more easily manage them, are freed up for other tasks, and enterprises gain a straight path to cloud computing.
But as businesses raced forward with their virtualization strategies, one critical element often went overlooked: storage. Today, there is a glaring gap in many data centers where virtual storage should exist, and the proliferation of unstructured data and cloud computing is only enlarging the problem. Until businesses fill this chasm, they will never fully realize the true potential of the virtualized data center.
