TheInfoPro (TIP), an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry, today announced that, according to its newly published F1000 Storage Networking Report, Storage decision-makers think EMC, NetApp, IBM, and HDS are the vendors that have replication solutions that work best with server virtualization.

SAN sales may be down, but existing SANs are getting bigger, and many companies are consolidating them. Over the past few years, many large enterprises have applied SAN solutions in an ad hoc fashion to support particular applications.