Storage Virtualization: An Insider's Guide Part 3 - Managing Storage Perfromance
When most business or IT managers are queried for their definition of storage efficiency, the answer quickly turns to performance. Storage needs to be nimble, delivering not only capacity sufficient to meet the growing volume of data but also the speed to write data as rapidly as it is presented and to retrieve it immediately upon requests from applications and decision-makers. Hardware vendors have long marketed speed enhancements as a key differentiator and main selling point of their latest storage array, switch or interconnect, charging a premium for the latest, fastest technology.
Storage virtualization has the potential to break speed barriers without breaking the storage budget.
About the Author:
Jon William Toigo
CEO Toigo Partners International
Chairman Data Management Institute