Why you need storage consolidation :

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Your server administrators are putting in long hours to keep everything operational, and those cheap external disks fail way too often. They are overworked and are becoming dissatisfied.

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Your servers are running out of disk space faster than before and your team seems to always be more busy fighting fires, rather than implementing new core business strategy. You need to plan a server downtime for disk administration.

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You have no way to share the ample disks in one server with another that is running out of space.

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You have been tasked to save money by reducing your expenditures, and to do more with less, but your servers are running out of PCI slots for adding disk adapters (and there is no more internal room to add disks, so you have to buy more servers).

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Your network is getting slower, and backup is taking too long.