What the Experts Are Saying COMPLEXITY COST PERFORMANCE Enterprises are “Storage accounts for “Maintaining high struggling “to meet 40% to 60% of the performance while service levels with a total cost of SHVD scaling is a top 3 rigid storage cost per desktop.” storage challenge.” architecture, for example, that can’t Forrester Research keep up with a highly Gartner Survey on Storage for consolidated and Storage Design Virtual Servers automated virtual Alternatives for Virtual Desktop Deployments, server environment.” January 2013 Forrester Research 6

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