Death of iSCSI

I wonder if the death of iSCSI (I Still Can't Sell It according to some my friends in the Fibre Industry) is going to be like the death of the mainframe? I really think it is too soon to write obituaries yet; I think iSCSI will just happily sit in it's natural market place which I think is the SMB sector. It's not glamorous, it's not sexy but it's a large market and DCE is just going to be too expensive for those guys for quite a while.

Not everything is about the Enterprise market, just as recent events have shown that not everything is about the Finance Sector. Of course, if we get this huge virtualised cloud and SMBs simply buy server-space and compute power from the cloud providers; then iSCSI might have a problem.

And geekboy that I am, I quite like iSCSI because it means I can play with certain aspects of SAN technology at home; even my extremely tolerant wife would probably draw the line at me running fibre round the house and installing fibre channel switches, arrays etc. Still, next time we have the house re-wired; I'm going to have some form of structured cabling put in; I will have a 10GbE back-bone!!

BTW Chuck, unless the Iomega StorCenter comes in different colours; it's never going to get WAF here. I found the best solution was to build my own using an old laptop with a couple of 2.5" drives and because it's a laptop; it has a built-in UPS; I just stow it in a cupboard, out of sight. At the moment; it's pretending to be a Celerra.

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[Chad Sakac]

Storagebod - glad to see you're playing with the Celerra VSA!