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To: DownSouth who wrote (4508)9/21/2000 8:24:56 AM
From: bob gauthier   of 10934
 
Somewhat meatless article found in InternetWeek today:

Storage Gets Sensible

It's been one of the louder debates raging for the last couple of
years among vendors of servers, RAID products and Fibre Channel
switches. Network attached storage or storage area network? NAS vs.
SANs. Which to buy? May the best price point for gigabyte and
terabyte capacity win.

IT managers are using whatever makes the most sense in a given part
of the enterprise. Sometimes, it's a matter of reacting promptly to
an urgent requirement, driven in turn by storage-intensive apps that
won't wait for a full-blown ROI study. Pragmatism is the order of the
day as IT managers implement SANs and NAS in the same enterprise.
Vendor black and white usually gives way to the customer's gray
areas.

Storage purchases, long on a steep growth curve, are projected to
continue on that same trajectory during the next few years. IDC
estimates that 400,000 terabytes of storage capacity will be sold
this year, more than tripling to 1.3 million terabytes by 2002.
That's a lot of bits and tape libraries and RAID assemblies.

It's also a sizable piece of IT's budget and is growing annually.
Dataquest projects the cost per megabyte of storage this year to be
roughly 15 cents, a price that could fall to as little as three cents
per megabyte in three years.--Terry Sweeney
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