The Benefits of Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization aids in performing common tasks that consume significant staff, IT, and production resources:
- Data migration across systems. Advanced virtualization technology reduces business and IT environment risks and improves operational efficiencies. Migration takes less time, less staff, produces less errors and little to no impact on production systems.
- Strategic alignment of business applications with the storage infrastructure to interactively match application quality of service requirements.
- Remote replication from any-to-any system, including low-cost disk.
- Integration of low-cost disk storage into high performance environments.
- Consolidation of several diverse storage environments into a single storage area network (SAN).
- Optimization of current resources and processes, and greater utilization of existing storage assets.
Storage virtualization is part of two ongoing, larger storage industry trends and innovations:
The move to place storage processing functions as close as possible (in the storage system controller) to the actual data being processed.
