DataCore's SANmelody lets the VW Financial Services unit provide storage from a central pool for all types of applications
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=172103&WT.svl=news2_1
Despite a long series of ad campaigns in which it encouraged customers to "Think Small," Volkswagen in the U.K. was finding out that it needed to think big. The company's data storage requirements were growing exponentially. Email and database requirements were getting bigger all the time. Meanwhile, the company was moving to a blade server environment to keep its data center from being any bigger than it needed to be. The answer was to virtualize its storage.