This whiteboarding session discusses the current challenges faced in the storage environment such as increased storage growth and complexity, shrinking IT budgets, the need to be 24X7 and its impact on DR. Then, discusses new technologies in the storage environment to provide solutions to address these challenges including storage virtualization, solid state disk, auto disk tiering, thin provisioning, dedup and compression. No vendor's products are discussed in this session. The session is meant to expose you to technologies you should be aware of in the storage environment.