What Does it Mean to Create Storage Efficiency?

According to IDC (a leading independent research firm in IT), "Last year, despite the global recession, the Digital Universe set a record. It grew by 62% to nearly 800,000 petabytes. A petabyte is a million gigabytes." Picture a stack of DVDs reaching from the earth to the moon and back. It's no surprise storage efficiency is all the rage with midrange and enterprise storage vendors today. With this explosion of data growth, it becomes critical for businesses to find technologies that allow IT managers to do more with less.

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The industry is certainly seeing the muscle of the heavy weights being thrown around, predominantly from Cisco, VMware, NetApp, EMC and Microsoft. Each IT powerhouse has a vested interest in "Cloud Computing". You may have heard the following offerings with slick names, like Microsoft's Hyper-V FastTrack Cloud Pods, NetApp FlexPod™ for VMware and EMC vBlock.

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