Imagine that you are serving in the role of director of data center operations for your company, which is currently using redundant sites as backup and manually managing replication and failovers. The business plan for your organization has changed, and management has decided to grow the business by 20% over the next year. The chief information officer (CIO) has tasked you with meeting the expected increase in demand for data storage while not increasing your department's budget. You believe that you can meet the challenge by adopting a new concept called data center virtualization.