What's Next
ISCSI storage technology, meanwhile, may be on the horizon for remote sites where technicians aren't stationed full-time. That way, Southern could set up more reliable backups that don't require hands-on support. The utility already has installed a Veritas VeriStor iSCSI disk subsystem at one of its remote sites.
"We're looking for something that's easy to connect and disconnect, and iSCSI just plugs in like any other device and any server there can look at it," says Mark Rawson, a senior storage analyst at Southern. "iSCSI has a better remote capability. Someone down there just plugs it into an Ethernet hub, and we do the rest from here."
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