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Abstract: As companies' information assets have grown, their storage environments have become increasingly heterogeneous and complex, and thus difficult to manage. The good news is that storage virtualization technologies are providing organizations with tools to more easily and efficiently manage their storage infrastructure, ultimately helping maximize IT resources and enabling capabilities that were not possible before. This podcast provides an overview of storage virtualization, detailing the various approaches in the marketplace today and assessing the pros and cons of each.

Attendees will learn about the operational and business benefits that storage virtualization provides, including: simplified management; increased storage utilization; easier disaster recovery planning; seamless data migration; and foundation for a tiered architecture.

Listeners will also hear first-hand experiences from a Datalink engineer who has implemented virtualization technology in several environments. He'll describe how companies he's worked with have used virtualization to address their business issues. For organizations looking to simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure, this podcast provides a detailed account of how virtualization technologies can help.