在企业纷纷压缩IT预算的今天,大型企业已不再满足于仅仅通过增加硬件设备的数量来满足企业对数据存储日益增长的需求了。但是,硬件需求的减少并不意味着这些企业就真的由此陷入了“存储饥饿”的困境。业内新推出的所谓存储虚拟化系统正帮助企业IT管理人员从现有的存储投资中节约投资。简单地说,存储虚拟化的最主要优势在于采用虚拟存储之后,企业无需再向服务器或者服务器群集添加存储容量,IT维护人员可以向 As businesses shrink IT budgets today, large enterprises are no longer content with meeting the growing need for data storage by simply adding more hardware devices. However, the reduction in hardware requirements does not mean that these companies really fell into the “store starvation” dilemma. The industry’s new so-called storage virtualization system is helping enterprise IT managers save money from their existing storage investments. Simply put, the main advantage of storage virtualization is that with virtual storage, organizations no longer need to add storage capacity to a server or server cluster and IT maintainers can