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Microsoft's Azure means dark days for storage vendors

michael
Joke

I don't think so

customers drawn to cloud computing would never buy an EMC, HDS or Netapp array in the first place. they're more likely to have their data sitting on direct attached storage running RAID0 on 1TB SATA disks, and have 1 poor schmuck doing everything. So what difference does it make if they dump their crap into the cloud. But customers with serious apps and mission critical data surely wouldnt move it to the cloud. Also, even if all the companies in the world decide to entrust their data centre operations to Microsoft (god forbid), their data has to sit on some form of storage. Whichever storage vendor does business with Microsoft is likely to benefit. So not ALL storage vendors will lose out. Some likely to gain from this.

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Brocade unfurls FCoE roadmap

michael

Incorrect statement

"It is confidently expected that storage arrays will emerge with native FCoE interfaces, at which point a server with an FCoE adapter or CNA could talk via ethernet and an ethernet switch to an FCoE storage array with no need for a FC fabric structure at all."

This statement is not accurate. FCoE or DCE (data center ethernet) provides a shared media layer for FC and IP networks.CNA or FCoE adapters contain separate chips for FC and IP communications. CISCO already ship FCoE switches and there are separate management interfaces for the FC fabric (fabric manager) and IP (IOS) network. I believe these switches run the NEXUS OS, which basically is the SAN-OS and IOS merged.

I spoke to a Brocade rep who said FCoE won't really take off for another 3-4 years, but said it was inevitable that it will be the prevalent technology for data centres of the future.

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