June 7,2006, IBM announced that a breakthrough function has been added in its world one-up storage virtual software, therefore, it could extend distance, advance speed and cover with more platform. New generation storage virtual software issued by IBM System Storage SAN 卷控制器（SVC）4.1edition owns a great deal of new techs, one of them could help corporation with simulating their own infrastructure efficiently and covering farther distance at lower cost.

　　Today, IBM expands its leadership in the storage virtual. There are 2000 users simulating 15PB data. The notify announced by IDC shows that by 2005, the capacity of virtual network storage data is 28.1PB, IBM manages half data. Except operation continuity function, now SVC 4.1 could support 4Gbps environment, and its function has been expanded to virtual management of 80 kinds of data.