There has been a noticeable increase in the number of storage product launches in the past few weeks and that will continue during VMworld 2012, which begins Sunday in San Francisco.
VMworld has become a major storage event because of the impact server virtualization can have on operational environments. Storage can be the limiting factor for server virtualization projects, both on the server and desktop. To remedy the bottlenecks created with storage when multiple virtual machines are running on a physical server, storage systems need to be optimized for virtualized environments.
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