But IBM's among the first to offer SATA on midrange systems (see EMC, IBM Lead in Midrange Storage). That gives it a jump on that market -- but is it the right market? (See Sun Set for SATA Day?) And will organizations agree these servers are the solution for compliance?
So far, the jury's out. The first two customers IBM announced for the SATA servers are not using them for compliance. These early adopters include Tilak, a holding organization for hospitals in Tyrol, Austria; and the Norwegian National Library, a library, we are told, in Norway. Tilak plans to archive digital pictures, and the library is bracing for a large influx of new data. In both cases, the customers require large storage capacity for data that may not be frequently accessed.
We wanted to offer our customers a way to more affordably manage their various fixed content and data reference applications that require large amounts of storage capacity but do not have the high utilization and access characteristics satisfied by Fibre Channel disk drive storage, IBM product manager Harold Pike said.
The main question that remains unanswered is whether companies need compliance data to be frequently accessible or not. How compliance unfolds will determine whether IBM is really on target.
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