Ethernet Storage Europe

What is IP Storage?

IP Storage has rapidly become a mainstream storage networking technology, offering secure, reliable and flexible new options to customers. IP Storage solutions can complement and extend existing SAN environments, or provide affordable new SAN storage solutions in parts of the IT infrastructure still dominated by direct-attached storage.  IP Storage solutions allow organizations to maximize existing IT investments while deploying more effective and efficient data management solutions.

In the past 5 years we have seen the rapid growth IP Storage, particularly in Windows. iSCSI is now viewed as a mainstream SAN solution for business-critical Windows server environments in medium and in large organizations. In addition, the recent rapid growth of IP Storage solutions for virtual server and blade server environments has made IP Storage the fastest growing segment of the storage market. That growth is expected to continue in the coming years as 10 GigaBit Ethernet drives the technology into large-scale, high-performance, and tier 1 data center environments.

iSCSI is particularly interesting for storage consolidation supporting application servers in environments where simplicity, flexibility, and price/performance are the critical IT decision factors, as well as for more affordable and efficient backup and disaster recovery solutions for distributed data centers. Most iSCSI deployments have occurred at the departmental or regional level of very large enterprises, or in the main data center of medium and small enterprises. Most are “green field” SANs replacing direct-attached storage, particularly in Windows and Linux environments in which limited admin support, host attach costs, and infrastructure complexity have traditionally inhibited Fibre Channel SAN deployment. More recently, iSCSI has also become a popular solution in virtual server environments, blade server environments, and remote offices providing “lights-out” data management and protection.

Analysts forecast that the relative market share of Ethernet based networked storage could account for $7 Billion in 2009, compared with $11 Billion for Fibre Channel SAN storage. In fact a surprising number of enterprises today have “Ethernet only data centers” with all storage traffic using an Ethernet infrastructure for SAN, NAS, and remote datacenter connectivity. This phenomenon is likely to become increasingly widespread in the coming years as 10 GbE is more aggressively deployed.

Learn more about IP storage...

If you are interested in What’s Hot in the world of IP Storage, be sure to visit the IP Storage Forum and related IPSF Hot Topics here.

Download new Whitepapers, FAQ’s and Educational Articles via the links below:

• White Papers



• IP Storage Technology Paper
  


• IP Storage Frequently Asked Questions
  


• IP Storage API
  


• iSCSI and Virtual Servers
  


• Ethernet-Based Storage – State of the Market and Futures



• All Contributed Articles Written by the IP Storage Forum

The focus of the SNIA Europe IPSI and why you should join us...

• To increase the number of active participants in IPSI community with better market coverage for vendors, resellers, distributors and end users
• To continue on the path of IP Storage education leveraging existing vehicles such as Storage Expo's, SNW and SNIA Academy events and other/new initiatives
• To involve Channel Players in IP Storage education and marketing
• To increase IP Storage visibility in Europe (PR, Presentations, Articles)
• Continue active co-operation between IPSI and SNIA country organisations

The SNIA Europe IP Storage Initiative (IPSI) wants to have full market coverage by having the maximum number of vendors, resellers, distributors and end users participate and contribute. Some upcoming Storage Academy events you don’t want to miss in Zurich, Dubai, Scandinavia, France and London - for more information visit www.storage-academy.com

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