Not so long ago, the world of storage was pretty straightforward. All conversations were about external storage, and external storage was all about storage area networks (SANs) or network attached storage (NAS). It was all very predictable and manageable but, truth to tell, not too exciting.

That’s changed in a big way in the past few years, as one wave of innovation after another has swept over the sector (I recently met with blogger Calvin Zito to talk about some of the biggest storage trends – check out our video interview.)

Looking around today’s very different landscape, I’m constantly struck by a couple of new bedrock realities that have profound implications for anyone who’s charged with shaping their organization’s IT resources for the future – and for any vendors vying for that business.

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