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VMware — A Storage Solutions Provider?
Jul 2012		Doc # 236239		Insight

Printed Page Length: 6 pages

By: Ashish Nadkarni, Gary Chen

Price $ 500.00

Abstract

This IDC Insight examines how VMware's approach to storage enablement in the infrastructure has propelled VMware from being a passive infrastructure player to more of a "virtual" storage vendor — whose products are at the core of the infrastructure and play the role of orchestrating various storage functions such as data protection, data replication, disaster recovery, storage optimization and automated tiering, application, host and VM-level storage integration, and service-level management.

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Subscriptions Covered:

Storage Solutions: Storage and Virtualized Environments

Companies Covered:

EMC Corporation, IBM, NetApp, Inc., VMware, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc.

Topics Covered:

Cloud system software, Disaster recovery, Disk storage, Disk-based data protection, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI SANs, Hardware, Hypervisors, Operating systems and subsystems, Server virtualization, Software, Storage systems, System software, Tape storage, Virtual machine software, Virtualized server

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