Stonefly Pumps New Life Into Storage

摘要

For many midsize com- panies, the major obstacle to adopting IP storage is not necessarily the fear of new technologies but the need to preserve a recent, conspicuous investment in conventional storage arrays. That the benefits of networked storage might ultimately compensate for the loss of new disk arrays is an assertion difficult to substantiate. And it may not resonate well in the company boardroom. Luckily, there is an elegant way out of this predicament: Virtualization routers from companies such as Stonefly Networks extend the life of traditional disk arrays by allowing them to provision storage for an IP SAN.