Of course, iSCSI is an interconnect technology like any other. The beauty is that it can be deployed with no additional investment except for target connection support. You don't require expensive switches or even specialized host bus adapters to support 98 percent of applications today. The initiator software is free.
Maybe that's why the technology has such appeal south of the equator, and why some hardware vendors fail to see its profit potential. But common sense, both in the United States and abroad, is not only driving consumers to the technology, but also creating opportunities for data-management software vendors whose products can leverage the interconnect and create more cost-effective solutions to the knotty storage problems facing us all.
Jon William Toigo is a contributing editor to Storage Pipeline, CEO of storage consultancy Toigo Partners International, and founder and chairman of the Data Management Institute. Write to him at [email protected].
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