iSCSI Makes Storage Networks Affordable for SMBs

For as little as $3500, small businesses can buy themselves the data protection and sophisticated storage management of a storage area network (SAN). And they don't need Fibre Channel's cost and complexity to do it, as lower-cost Ethernet-based iSCSI will work just fine.

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"Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use of data storage has become affordable for all but the smallest of IT shops.

"For example, Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) SAN arrays such as the Drobo Elite cost $3500, and the Dell PowerVault MD3000i starts at just over $5000."

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