About the White Paper:
Imagine a world where storage management is simplified; things work together; there are no configuration issues when upgrading, and vendors all cooperate to allow information to be easily stored and retrieved seamlessly. This was reality in the mainframe world, but deployment of open systems shattered these concepts. Today, most storage array vendors are more focused on selling their own arrays versus creating a solution that is easy and cost-effective to manage.
This white paper describes the benefits of one proposed answer to these incompatibility concerns and storage management challenges - virtualization. (June 2002) |
