Summing Up

• SANs enable storage-centric data centers

  • Data is the valuable asset

• New complexities

  • Dozens of non-cooperating servers
  • Thousands of heterogeneous devices

• Virtualization to the rescue

  • The only way to cope with the complexity

• The future

  • Storage administrators
    • Pan-data center
    • Empowered by QoSS-based management
  • Vital for xSP deployment models

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