The Future of Storage in a Virtualized Data Center

In this market report, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analysts reveal that IT organizations will be increasingly motivated to overhaul their network and storage infrastructures to keep up with radical changes at the virtualized compute layer. The network layer is rapidly shifting from Fibre Channel to Ethernet. The storage layer of the data center will increasingly look like the server layer: scale-out, virtualized, and flexible, with commodity hardware economics. The increasing political—and business—clout of virtualization advocates will only accelerate these trends.  Read this white paper to learn more about the future of storage in a virtualized data center.