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How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors  Google and a bevy of
large enterprises and cloud providers have broken the
stranglehold of big enterprise storage vendors using
virtualization. You can, too.      5 Reasons To Adopt Storage
Virtualization Now 1. No Lock-In It's easy to migrate among
storage platforms with minimal IT pain and no disruption for
users. 2. Standardized management: A single interface and common
features let IT manage a variety of storage devices. 3. Ease of
adding new functionality: Storage virtualization software eases
replication, snapshots, thing provisioning, and adoption of
other utilities on dissimilar hardware. 4. Accelerate and reduce
load on Tier 1 SANS: By using huge amounts of commodity RAM as
cache, the overall load on underlying SANs is reduced, often
substantially. Wrings more performance out of existing hardware.
5. Flexible Growth: Start small by virtualizing low-end storage
for archiving, then scale to include