Starter sans

摘要

The smb sector is poised to become the next big market for SANs. For vendors courting this market, the biggest challenge is that because SMBs typically lack specialized storage architects and administrators, building SANs from components is a tricky proposition for them. To see how some of the major players are addressing this issue, I looked at SMB-friendly SAN offerings from Compellent, Dell/EMC, Dynamic Network Factory, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, iQstor, MPC, and Nexsan. Of the eight systems tested, three offer FC (Fibre Channel), three offer iSCSI (Internet SCSI), and two offer both forms of connectivity.