iSCSI: a Popular Storage Networking Option

When iSCSI landed on the storage networking scene, Fiber Channel was already an established solution. A number of benefits to using iSCSI have been realized, especially in Windows — or Windows with some  Linux — environments. InfoStor recently took a look at iSCSI opportunities and market growth, and compared the rate of iSCSI adoption to Fiber Channel in SMB and enterprise deployments.

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"iSCSI has become a popular SAN solution in both large organizations and SMBs. Deployments in large enterprises have typically been in tier-2 and tier-3 data centers and large remote offices. In SMB environments, it is common to see iSCSI SANs in both primary and secondary data centers and in remote offices.

"Another sweet spot for iSCSI is in application service provider environments. NFS-based NAS running on a high-performance Ethernet fabric often dominates here because most traffic is file-based, but iSCSI adds seamless support for applications that benefit from SANs. These are now evolving into cloud computing environments, as virtual server software is added."

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