However, Clarke acknowledges that iSCSI still has a great deal to offer for storage networking. I can see it having a role to play in situations where organizations are implementing SANs and NAS.
You can get just as good performance with iSCSI for things like backing-up where the speed of the backup is determined by the application and not the technology used."
Microsoft is at pains to emphasize that the decision to extend support on Exchange Server 2003 was in response to customer demand. In a statement, Kevin McCuiston, director of Exchange marketing at Microsoft, says, Exchange Server customers have been asking us for the ability to utilize iSCSI and NAS storage devices in an Exchange environment...
These new storage solutions for Exchange 2003 bring exciting benefits to our customers and are especially valuable in small-business and remote-office scenarios."
Egge of IDC has also noticed this trend. Its early days for iSCSI," he says. "A lot of the larger firms will already have implemented Fibre Channel, so iSCSI will be useful for the smaller firms.
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