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Storage Pipeline: 20 Questions: Page 17 of 27

Think you know your storage vendor? We sent 14 leading companies a survey designed to shake up the status quo and to see if an interconnect war really is brewing.
August 13, 2004
  1. What is the advantage of iSCSI over burgeoning protocols for large-scale device interconnection, such as SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI)"which, with expanders, offers connectivity for as many as 16,000 nodes?
  2. With burgeoning drive-capacity improvements, already at 200 GB for SATA and SCSI, can't arrays be built with adequate capacity to meet the needs of SMBs (small and midsize businesses) without resorting

    3. to SANs?

  3. With removable/exchangeable disk/tape hybrids, such as Spectra Logic's RXT platforms, can't SMBs achieve capacity scaling requirements without deploying SANs at all?

9. What has happened to TOE (TCP Off-load Engine) technology, once touted as a prerequisite for iSCSI SANs? Was it simply hype intended to keep HBA vendors from losing market share to vendors of simple NICs in an iSCSI world? Or has TOE development proved more daunting than originally thought? Why aren't we hearing more about TOE?

10. FC fabric advocates claim that FC fabrics are more secure than iSCSI SANs. What do you think?

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