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Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg Hull who wrote (3634)	7/16/2001 2:46:32 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4808

.....As A. J. Casamento, a "solutioneer" with Brocade Communications Systems, once remarked to me, once an open SAN appears on the market, Joe’s JBODs will perform just as well as an EMC Symmetrix array costing much, much more. "People who buy EMC will realize that they have been paying way too much for storage." What Casamento and others are suggesting is that a virtualized storage controller architecture, as an integral part of a SAN operating system, will eliminate the need for expensive, proprietary, array-specific controllers. The result will be that large-scale array manufacturers, if they are not eliminated, will be relegated to a niche -- probably outside of the storage network.... Yeah, that's the ticket. Put some more distance and latency between the cache subsystem and disk drives that will somehow manage themselves. Wasn't Brocade the same company that tried to convince EMC that non-disruptive code loads and director-class switches are not necessary? We all know what happened to those brilliant suggestions now, do we? LOL. Server vendors love to sell JBODs (dumb storage) because the customer is frequently upgrading to faster and faster servers to keep up with expanding workloads that are constantly getting mired in I/O issues that also create all kinds of data management and integrity issues. The virtualized storage controller concept is just another variation, if somewhat transparent, of that discredited one-size-fits-all scheme from a switch vendor with very little data center experience. Here's a real world account of an oil exploration company that moved away from an unwieldy server/JBOD data management topology to a Clariion SAN: emc.com