Introduction
Almost every IT and business leader today is focused on creating a more agile business. The ability to adapt immediately to business climate changes is now the basis for competitive advantage, and it will determine which companies will thrive and leapfrog their competitors and which ones will face becoming irrelevant. However, business agility cannot be achieved without having an agile IT infrastructure to enable it. This is one of the reasons why businesses have spent billions of dollars on technology to make IT more agile.
In the data center, virtualization has become the norm and has raised the level of agility at the compute layer. Flash storage is now being used to enable businesses to migrate data at unprecedented speeds. Some organizations have deployed network virtualization as a way to increase the agility of the data center. ZK Research estimates that businesses have spent $12 billion on infrastructure used to make the data center more agile.
