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We can answer both of these physical storage, allows far central point for storage
questions by looking at the greater flexibility in how the allocation we need to
ANAL
chart below. According to storage is allocated and used. consider backup and recovery
research we conducted earlier This also results in greater processes for example. There
YSIS INDUSTR
this year, we can see that disk utilisation, lowering the could well be organisational
storage virtualisation is by cost and power requirements and political impacts as well,
no means a majority activity, of the overall storage estate. in organisations with a strong
but has nonetheless been systems ownership culture.
adopted by over 40% of larger There are operational benefits
organisations. too. Operations staff can add An investment in storage
new storage capacity to the virtualisation offers opportunities
The relationship between pool quickly and easily, to consolidate storage assets
storage and server without taking down existing in the short term. At the same
virtualisation should not be systems. This extends to time, it offers one piece of the
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understated. Organisations making it more straightforward puzzle some are calling
are telling us that, as they to add disaster recovery and ‘dynamic’, ‘agile’ or ‘adaptive’
adopt server virtualisation, compliance features such as IT. We’re not expecting to see
this causes additional replication to a remote location. elephants dancing on the
pressures on their storage heads of pins any time soon.
infrastructures in terms of Where’s the catch? Storage However, virtualisation in
ease of provisioning and virtualisation results in a general does present an
flexible storage delivery. shared service, and so it does opportunity to offer IT
Storage virtualisation can require an architectural view services in a more flexible
help in both of these areas. of storage assets. There are manner, if it is approached in
By creating a layer of operational impacts of this, as the right way.
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