Conclusion
The firm sees storage networks as a fundamental technology enabler for virtualization, which will enable the "holy grail," the capability to move data between locations and across storage platforms transparent to the applications and hosts. This capability, in addition to raising utilization rates, will also enhance the overall business continuance strategy.Although the team recognizes that ease of management for heterogeneous storage is still a myth, and that software capable of supporting an advanced ILM infrastructure is still to come, the team sees value in a tiered storage infrastructure. The team also recognizes that the first step toward achieving the "holy grail," and ultimately fulfilling the storage vision is migrating all DAS to a storage network.