business inventory
Today (2009) Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS have been successfully implemented in
production environments. It is expected the FCoE will enter the market in 2009. Fibre
Channel satisfies the highest performance requirements - it is currently (2009) the only
transmission technique for storage networks that is suitable for I/O intensive databases.
Since 2002, iSCSI has slowly been moving into production environments. It is said that
iSCSI is initially being used for applications with low or medium performance requirements.
It remains to be seen in practice whether iSCSI also satisfies high performance
requirements business inventory or whether FCoE establishes as the technology for storage
networks based on Ethernet. NAS is excellently suited to web servers and for the file
sharing of work groups. With RDMA-enabled NFS and CIFS, NAS could also establish
itself as a more convenient data store for databases.
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