Data center resources have traditionally been underutilized while drawing enormous
amounts of power and taking up valuable floorspace. 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.
There are many entrants into the server virtualization market, including VMWare,
Microsoft, Oracle, Citrix, and others; so there is a good chance that you are either
running virtualization in a test or development capacity or have taken the leap toward
a production virtualized data center. With all of the benefits of virtualization
comes a wholesale change in the way that you must plan for implementation, management,
backup and recovery.
Download Pillar Data System's White Paper: The Modern Virtualized Data Center for more.