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Survivor's Guide to 2006: Storage and Servers: Page 2 of 14

• Introduction

• 2006 Priority

• Security

• Network and Systems

  Management

• Apps

• Messaging
• Net Infrastructure

• Wireless

• Storage & Servers


Now's the time to prepare for iSCSI. Consider it when you're making your infrastructure and storage decisions. Setups by many vendors give you faster than 1-Gbps total speed, and 10 Gigabit will just expand your options. However, the technology won't be right in every situation. If you own an FC SAN, for example, you shouldn't run to iSCSI automatically. You've got a lot of infrastructure tied up in that SAN. Consider what you would for any other storage technology--speed, infrastructure impact, vendor road map, cost per gigabyte, management and add-on applications.

SATA II and SAS