Storage admins everywhere know that because of the data deluge that's still surging, acquiring, managing and maintaining data center storage is the biggest cost in IT hardware budgets. The data growth isn't slowing, though, and the need for greater storage capacity needs to addressed with regard to more sustainability.

In order to approach storage capacity efficiency in an acute way, attention should be focused on virtualization platforms that offer single instancing, thin provisioning, compression and tiering or internal and external disk arrays. Check out this white paper to explore one vendor's approach to delivering sustainable storage and greater capacity, and learn why storage efficiency is so important in today's demanding IT climate.