University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, had experienced growth and a storage access rate that required a move to a virtualized storage or storage area network (SAN) architecture. UUHSC sought increased disk utilization, reduction in storage management labor, multitiered storage, ShadowImage capabilities for data redundancy, and elimination of the backup process from production instances of data.

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