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Content-Addressable Storage: Page 6 of 6

Who Needs CAS

Although the technology has been around for years, CAS offerings are relatively immature. Just as with storage virtualization, it's not the storage that gives the real business benefits, but the software that works on top of specialized CAS storage systems. For the foreseeable future, CAS adoption will likely be confined to large enterprises and specific vertical organizations, including government, health care, insurance, financial services, video/audio production and schools, simply because of the costs of implementation. Caringo is bucking that trend, hoping smaller companies will adopt its new CAStor software product, which runs on general servers and storage hardware. n

Steven J. Schuchart, Jr., a former NWC technology editor, is an analyst for competitive intelligence firm Current Analysis. Write to him at [email protected].