Blade Server Summit 2005

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Skip Jones
iSCSI for low-end of SMB Need a TOE
Go Low, Go TOE!
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SAN Technologies Will Coexist

• Hi performance db

Data Center

• Remote Backup
• Hi Perf workgroup
• NAS upgrade
• Block level storage

Corporate/ Department

• App Consolidation
• File sharing
• Web-Serving
• Low perf db
• File level storage

Small-Medium-Business (SMB)

• Fibre Channel continues dominance in Data Center
• Fibre Channel broadens market penetration as ASP
  decreases, ease of use increases
• iSCSI market entry will be block storage in
  low-end of SMB as a single converged one
  network migration up from DAS/NAS

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iSCSI Configuration Options
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How much does iSCSI affect the CPU?
B E T T E R
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Skip Jones
iSCSI for low-end of SMB Need a TOE
Go Low, Go TOE!