Continued need for higher-capacity networked storage creates demand for storage virtualization as enterprise data centers work to leverage existing assets, reduce costs, and simplify storage management. The most common storage issues routinely addressed by today's CIO and IT management tasked with overseeing their corporation's growing enterprise IT and storage environments include:
- Growing management complexity
- Exponential data growth
- Storage growth management
- Mounting CAPEX/OPEX for storage infrastructure
- Meeting changing application-level needs and service levels, without breaking the bank
- Low utilization of existing assets
- Flat or decreasing budgets for IT staff and resources
- Achieving cost-effective business continuity and data protection
