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Figure 4 – Actual average deployed capacity of the Lightning 9900 V Series systems exceeds that of shared-bus systems by a factor of 2.5x.
Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage
An important key to lower TCO is the Lightning 9900 V Series “virtual” Fibre Channel ports. Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in today’s heterogeneous storage environment, which is made up of these storage architectures: direct attached storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), and network attached storage (NAS), as shown in Figure 5. This increases the need to centralize and efficiently manage all heterogeneous storage with uniform enterprise policies and procedures.
Figure 5 – Today’s heterogeneous IT environment demands virtualization of storage.
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