Guest Column: Storage Management Is Becoming The Make Or Break Piece In A Successful Server Virtualization Strategy

By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.

Last week I blogged about the issues that were top of mind with users who were in attendance at the quarterly Omaha VMware Users Group (VMUG) meeting. Those challenges specifically included data protection, I/O bottlenecks and iSCSI SANs but notice that their issues can largely be traced back to an ineffective storage management strategy as the root of their issues. These problems are a BIG reason why we are seeing more announcements like today's enhanced and certified integration between the Citrix Essentials StorageLink™ technology and the 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers.