The adoption rate for 2-Gbit/s Fibre Channel is slower in Europe than in the U.S., as most companies are not utilizing all their 1- Gbit/s bandwidth, Talbut said. He added that the cost benefits of 2-Gbit/s FC and its backward-compatibility with 1-Gbit/s installations should drive adoption.
Storage management, storage consolidation, high availability, and backup and recovery were the primary drivers of SAN implementations, according to the study. And the key applications running over these SANs are data warehousing, enterprise resource planning, and financial processing systems.
Not surprisingly, the Webcasters didnt give much time to the adoption of iSCSI (SCSI over IP), the generally accepted alternative to FC, although they acknowledged that it will increase the demand for storage networks.
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