Users remain wary of intelligent switches

Despite continued optimism on the part of industry analysts that "the fabric is the future," users at Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando, said that they remain hesitant to deploy storage services -- such as virtualization -- in the network fabric. Todd Wyman, Unix systems analyst for Donaldson Company Inc. in Minneapolis, said he is currently using a virtualization product from StoreAge Networking Technologies running on a separate appliance outside his network path. That's as far as he's willing to take it, he said.

"It's true users are slow to adopt the technology," said Richard Villars, vice president of storage systems for IDC. Villars said his firm's surveys showed that only 8% of respondents had used virtualization at all, and typically, their implementation was "a very tactical box," like for migration.

Source: SearchStorage.com

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