IT Organizations are faced with the constant demand to process, move and store more information, including multiple copies of the same or similar data for longer periods of time while reducing per unit costs. In addition, IT organizations also need to maintain or enhance quality of service (QoS) levels. The result is a squeeze play that requires innovation to allow more to be done with already available resources without compromise of customer services. Many approaches are being used including server virtualization or storage virtualization, consolidation, re-tiering among other optimization techniques.

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