​Dell/EMC reshapes IT landscape, but what happens next?
Andrew Neff of Gartner cites the positives and challenges ahead for the merged company.
Andrew Neff of Gartner cites the positives and challenges ahead for the merged company.
Survey after survey indicates that interest in and adoption of storage virtualisation is increasing. But I cringe a bit when I see those surveys, because it's often impossible to determine what the numbers really tell us. How does each respondent define storage virtualisation?
If you're an IT executive, chances are you're already thinking about storage virtualisation. Nearly one-quarter of companies with at least 500 employees have deployed storage virtualisation products already, and another 55% plan to do so within two years, a recent Gartner survey found.
Storage virtualisation technologies, which are showing signs of maturity, have become an appealing option for some large companies looking to make better use of installed physical resources to keep up with escalating storage demands.
Last year storage vendors were pushing technology known as storage virtualisation — forthcoming software that would allow administrators to manage storage functionally rather than physically.