Storage Networking World Calls for More Virtualized Storage

While IT executives at SNW Spring 2010 called for more virtualization, commoditization and utility pricing of storage, it was not necessarily through a cloud model. According to this Search Storage report, storage virtualization discussion at SNW proved to be one technology IT executives were interested in.

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"Gomberg said he considers virtualization and data center consolidation 'two parts of the same problem. The big problem in [the television] industry is IP convergence. That which was stored on video tape is not digitally stored, and that which was delivered via broadcast is now delivered via Internet pipes, so we have all of this convergence going on, and IT and broadcast are becoming one technology. The only way we'll be able to manage it is with the marriage of those two kinds of technologies.'

"Kroll's Kubacki pointed to a data migration project using Hitachi Data Systems' USP-V arrays that his firm will soon undertake as an example of how virtualization can help."

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