Seanodes released the results of a third-party survey of IT professionals that shows that the transition from direct attached storage to networked storage is dictated by needs that come with server virtualization, such as VM migration, elevating costs and complexity, while taxing performance and management.

The survey, with respondents including network and systems administrators and other IT personnel from organizations of all sizes, sheds light on how virtualized infrastructures raise the levels of stress and demand on networked storage, creating a tenuous situation of economic sustainability against the high costs of improved storage performance.

“To fully benefit from server virtualization, you need a very complex and dynamic storage infrastructure, which only high-end systems offer,” said Jacques Baldinger, CEO of Seanodes. “The extreme consolidation of virtual machines onto only a few physical servers hosting dozens of very demanding applications is complex and creates problems in terms of management, reliability and performance, which is unacceptable. Our goal at Seanodes is to alleviate these issues.”