Top 7 storage trends for 2011

Remembering that virtual machine protection carries with it the same expectation that clients have of physical environments, organizations should implement disaster recovery technologies to ensure their mission-critical data in virtual environments is protected from day in day out business risks to devastating disasters. 

2011 will bring new delivery models in response to customer need to ease IT operations. Organizations can expect to tackle agility, research and storage optimization through unified storage devices with security and backup cloud access.

Cloud computing, hosted services and appliances are examples of increasingly attractive delivery models that provide organizations with flexibility and ease of deployment.