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Consolidation is the starting point for any storage transition and is fundamental to achieving infrastructure maturity in the storage environment.
Centralised management and a reduction in the quantity of physical devices is a process that many organisations have already started both in the server and storage environments.However, mid-sized and large organisations are frequently experiencing diminishing returns and operational issues from the first wave of consolidation.
This is the result of a number of factors- Islands of storage created for specific applications that cannot be shared
- Increasing management time
- Infrequently accessed or non-critical data residing on high performance disk and fabric
- Inflexible acquisition model and vendor lock-in
- Complex and expensive business continuity arrangements
- Limited physical space and rising power consumption
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