The emergence of storage virtualization technologies offers a variety of solutions, requiring your customers to understand the growing and complex landscape. This dynamic presents opportunities for Channel Pros from strategy development and planning to technology selection and implementation. This pocket eguide first addresses the advantages and disadvantages of storage virtualization technologies--providing a balanced view of software-based, appliance-based and switch-based approaches and then digs a bit deeper in to the issues of backup target consolidation via virtualization.