Organizations are seeing their data grow by at least 60 percent per year and they are unable to spread the capacity evenly across servers. While some servers run out of storage capacity, others have plenty to spare. Unfortunately, this unused capacity is not accessible to the servers which need it, and as storage becomes fragmented, storage management rapidly becomes a time consuming task for overstretched system administrators.

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The problem of “wasted capacity” is all too familiar...
Some servers exhaust their storage capacity. Others have
plenty to spare, and a wall separates the two. In the "Storage Virtualization for the SMO" whitepaper you'll learn how to get back the unused capacity, that is not accessible to your servers, and discover how to reduce the time it takes managing your data storage.
 

Figure 1. Direct Attach Storage provides only a temporary solution to data storage. The above diagram notes a usage scenario with 4 servers all having identical storage solutions. Due to the fact that the servers are hosting different applications, the capacity requirements are different for all of the servers. Unifying the storage in a Storage Area Network provides a pool of storage that can be allocated more efficiently between the connected Servers.