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NetApp SANscreen: Optimizing the Virtualized Data Center
Overview Today's business environment is more challenging than ever before. Global market conditions are subject to rapid change while compliance and regulation issues continue to be more demanding on IT. In order to be more responsive to the business, organizations are looking to create greater efficiencies and drive more accountability for IT to provide the appropriate level of service for the requested application. Within the data center, new composite applications are driving Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0 initiatives that require unprecedented levels of information access and sharing - and create almost entirely unpredictable data growth. In an attempt to better control these rapidly changing and growing environments, many organizations have responded by consolidating data centers and infrastructure.
| Publisher | Enterprise Strategy Group | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2009 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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