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The business benefits of unified storage

The challenges of data growth, workload variability and limited resources

Published November 2014

Data storage in the corporate environment has become increasingly complex. IT leaders face significant challenges in effectively storing and managing data. High data growth rates, variability in datacenter workloads, multiprotocol storage platforms, and the proliferation of dissimilar systems drive this complexity. As a consequence, specialized skills are required to operate and administer storage, with a limited pool of candidates available to hire for these jobs. While staffing is increasing operational challenges, budgets are not keeping pace with capacity and management requirements.

NetApp unified storage systems and the FAS2500 series in particular are specifically designed to address these issues. This paper explores each of these storage system attributes in more detail and describes the business benefits of each.