Is Cloud Storage Networking Right for your Business?

Storage vendors roll out more Fiber Channel over Ethernet, while storage networking industry experts debate the merits of outsourcing storage to a cloud provider. As noted in this IT World report, as companies store more video content and archive information to comply with the law, cloud computing will have an influence on storage purchasing decisions.

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"Bercovici said corporate IT departments have spent a lot of money on dedicated storage networks using the Fiber Channel protocol. But now, NetApp is touting Fiber Channel over Ethernet as a means of increasing efficiency by having storage traffic share 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks with other traffic.

"'We have seen a deliberate movement away from Fiber Channel-only networks to increasingly IP and Ethernet,' he said.

"Companies who have invested in Fiber Channel will probably continue to buy Fiber Channel products, especially those who depend on large transaction processing applications and large databases, said John Sloan, lead analyst at London, Ont.-based Info-Tech Research Group."

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