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Today’s IT leaders have to balance the often-competing demands of delivering greater
flexibility, availability and responsiveness to change, with the need to manage costs.
To that end, trends in the datacentre point towards the growth in the use of virtualised
servers exceeding that of physical servers. But effective virtualisation is not just a
question of getting the right server strategy – success depends on making the right
decisions on storage architecture at an early stage.