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Information technology managers across most areas of commerce are grappling with the challenges presented by explosive file data growth, which significantly raises the cost and complexity of storage environments.
This proliferation of unstructured data has left traditional storage architectures unable to satisfy the demands of this growth and has necessitated the development of a new generation of storage technologies. Also, broader data retention requirements, regulatory compliance, tighter availability service level agreements (SLAs) with internal or external customers, and cloud and virtualization initiatives are only serving to compound this issue.