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Storage Consolidation: The Best of Both Worlds

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Overview Storage consolidation has become a buzz phrase for IT departments looking for ways to escape the escalating storage-requirement rat race. More storage for less money: The promise of storage consolidation can seem like the way out of all the churning complexity that characterizes most storage environments today. The right way is to evaluate and understand the overall IT environment before consolidating anything. Toward that goal, the first step Logicalis recommends taking with its clients is to conduct a thorough and critical inventory of what's out there and how it's being used.

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Publisher	Datatec	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Storage Consolidation

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