Businesses today face a tall order around user expectations. Mobility, ubiquitous Internet and social media have business units expecting immediate on-a-dime services from IT. Increasingly IT has turned to virtualization and cloud computing to help meet these demands and have started a path to IT as a service (ITaaS); however, older architectures often stall efforts. In the case of storage, architectures designed decades ago are not prepared for the massive amounts of - often unstructured - data needed to be supported.

A converged storage strategy and next-generation technologies can help reign in big data and give control and flexibility, reduce compliance risks and maximize IT resources.