Automate with Application-Managed Storage

If emerging trends gain ground, storage admins will soon be able to fully automate data and storage management processes that are tied to a real-time awareness of the applications they serve. As noted in this CNET news report, applications-managed storage is one way to manage more virtualization with proportionately fewer people.

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"IT has traditionally been about automating things. But automated IT management, and particularly automated management of the storage environment, has traditionally been approached cautiously at best by IT administrators. Nevertheless, a number of technologies are now emerging that will facilitate automated data and storage management in a way that is linked directly to the needs of the application environment."

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