STORAGE ARCHITECTURE/SMART SHOPPER:

Rate the Disk System VendorsPresenter: Tony AsaroSenior Analyst Enterprise Strategy Group / ESG Lab

Survey results presented by Ken Male, Founder/CEO, TheInfoPro

The disk system vendors: SAN

The disk system vendors: NAS

The disk system vendors: CAS

Innovations - SANDistributed clusters Over provisioningTiered storage advancementsStretching clustersRemote replication

Array-based remote replicationRemote snapshotsArray-based asynchronous RMConsistency groupsIn the fabric

Intelligence in the fabric

Early adopters: Top 5 initial objectives of intelligent storage network deployment

42%

42%

42%

47%

49%

36%

76%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

"Deploy a tiered storage architecture"

"Deploy storage services betweenheterogeneous storage systems"

Automate key storage management functions"

"Improve storage utilization rates"

"Improve our ability to provision storagecapacity"

"Reduce overall storage hardware spending"

"Simplify the management of our storageresources"

iSCSI updateOver 2,000 production implementations by

EOY 2004More products coming out this year from

major storage vendorsDAS to SAN conversions, departmental, FC to

iSCSI conversionsThe economics are too compelling to ignore

SATA, FATA, SASSATA has driven down storage TCO and

enabled new applications and uses FATA is the FC alternative to SATASAS is around the corner

Innovations - NASDistributed clusters Scalable file systemSingle level of managementWORM

Innovations - CASDistributed clusters Single level of managementImmutabilityCoalescence

Disk-to-disk backupBlock-basedNAS-basedVTL