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Do You Really Need a SAN Anymore?: Page 2 of 2

Some food for thought -- but not a reason to throw out my SAN. Our Exchange 2007 servers use an iSCSI SAN and disk array, but they use SCR to replicate to our DR site.

Those who want to know about Forrester's arguments can download the 16 page report for a fee.

Howard Marks is chief scientist at Networks Are Our Lives Inc., a Hoboken, N.J.-based consultancy where he's been beating storage network systems into submission and writing about it in computer magazines since 1987. He currently writes for InformationWeek, which is published by the same company as Byte and Switch.