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vSphere Storage Appliance Enables SMBs to Use Server as SAN

VMware is hoping to attract small and medium businesses that have remained on the virtualization back burner due to the cost and complexity of deploying shared storage hardware. The unveiling of its new vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) enables customers to graduate to a shared storage environment in the future. SMB organizations can use internal storage in their existing servers and have it work like a storage area network (SAN) with vSphere Storage ApplianceRN.

"Stephan acknowledges that in the past, VMware's SMB's strategy has involved taking enterprise offerings and pricing and packaging them for smaller organizations. However, the same can't be said of VSA, which is built from the ground up to get SMBs to try virtualization, Stephan said. ‘We are continuing to focus on SMBs, it's an important segment for us, and you'll see more packages created to meet the needs of that customer base, which we see as very different from the enterprise,’ said Stephan.”