Instead, the panelists say the companies most likely to jump on the iSCSI bandwagon are those deploying brand-new SANs, or trying to connect servers that until now have had only direct-attached storage to their SAN. In addition, they said, most companies are likely to move to the new protocol gradually, creating a separate iSCSI network for less business-critical applications to begin with, as they test it out. Further along, I think youll see more of an intermixing, said Cisco's Chapman.
According to Christopher Croteau, market development director for Intels Storage Components Division, iSCSI's sweet spot will be SAN-in-a-box offerings. And thats irrespective of the organizations size, he said. People often make the mistake of thinking that big companies only have big networks.
Sweet spots aside, the fact remains that there are still very few storage array vendors offering iSCSI products. We really need to see a lot more target support before we really see iSCSI take off, said Enterprise Storage Group Inc. analyst Nancy Marrone, who was not at the conference.
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