The legacy storage systems of yesterday were not designed for use in virtualized environments or for storing the data of virtualized data center components. In fact, they're so inefficient and problematic it's astonishing that organizations across markets and the globe continue to leverage such outdated technologies even in the midst of today's increasingly virtual IT landscape.

Learn why and how traditional storage technologies just can't cut it and find seven criteria of next-generation, intelligent storage that's capable of meeting your data storage challenges and the huge demands of modern IT. Read on for more, including a look at one vendor's response to scale-out inefficiencies.