Despite the benefits achieved from today's breed of mature networked storage infrastructures, enterprises continue to struggle with exploding data growth, information compliance requirements and storage expenditures that now outpace the growth of overall IT budgets. To combat these challenges, it's critical for organizations to re-evaluate their storage architectures and reconfigure them, as needed, in order to simultaneously contain future costs while offering better quality storage services to the business. This white paper describes core strategies and emerging technologies that can help organizations transition their storage infrastructures into more efficient, advanced consolidated architectures that align storage with business requirements. The white paper provides key insights to helping organizations achieve better storage cost-containment, more flexible storage architectures, streamlined storage management, and an overall better storage quality of service to meet current and future needs.