Research Brief: Unified Storage Adoption Continues IT Efficiency Trend
ESG Research Brief

Sep 29, 2009
Driven by ongoing challenges such as poor storage utilization, management complexity, and rising data
center costs, more than two-thirds of organizations surveyed by ESG are in the process of implementing or evaluating
a unified storage infrastructure that consolidates NAS and SAN systems. By improving the mobility and sharing of
data between resources and users in a fluid and cost-effective manner, unified storage can provide both IT and
business benefits in almost any environment and can also serve as the perfect back-end to today’s dynamic and
increasingly virtualized data centers.
 

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