Virtualization has become a core component of modern IT infrastructure. However, many organizations are still relying on legacy spindle hard drives or SATA SSDs—architectures that were never designed for today’s data-hungry workloads, to supplement their virtualization platforms. In this first article of our three-part series, we’ll examine why legacy storage media is no longer suitable, and why NVMe is now the essential foundation for virtualization. An Inevitable Transition