According to analysts, about 80% of corporate data exists outside of the data center, usually tucked away on user laptops or relegated to remote servers in distant offices. In most cases, that data is only synchronized with the main data center through periodic backups--cumbersome procedures that usually required vulnerable tape or expensive WAN bandwidth.

In the storage consolidation realm, data migration-the process of moving data from one storage location to another--is crucial to storage preparation and ongoing management. This eGuide covers how crucial to data migration is to storage preparation and ongoing management.