Research shows that the storage choices organizations make today to support their virtualized environments can directly impact — good or bad — their businesses tomorrow. As one proof point, a March 2009 research report in Network World shows the direct effect storage choice has on virtual server performance, data protection and storage utilization.

While selecting the right storage is important during all phases of server virtualization deployment, it is increasingly vital as the scope of deployments widens to include more business critical applications and hundreds and thousands of virtual machines. As these environments evolve, capacity, management and especially performance issues can quickly spiral out of control. Once “manageable” issues can inhibit business, preventing organizations from meeting service level agreements and cutting costs.

Following are the Top Five Business Reasons organizations tell us they are deploying the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family in their virtualized environments.