Building Open iSCSI SAN Storage Systems On Industry-Standard Platforms

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Information technology is maturing and moving to a new phase where its focus will be service-oriented architectures that deliver greater business efficiencies. This new phase, which IDC calls Dynamic IT, will leverage existing investments in infrastructure while providing improvements in cost reduction, security, and reliability. After nearly a half-century of evolution defined by improvements in storage and server hardware capabilities, the IT industry is moving on to deploy systems measured by their contributions to business value.

Software is a central component of Dynamic IT. Systems software brings the power, scale, and availability of large numbers of smart subsystems to bear on business processes and IT services. LeftHand Networks SAN/iQ software is an early-to-market example of a Dynamic IT offering. The company's set of core SAN services includes the following:

• the ability to build and scale storage infrastructure modularly from industry-standard servers and ubiquitous IP networks
• virtualized hardware that appears to users to be a single management entity
• embedded self-healing and workload management capabilities based on a flexible grid or network of smart systems

This white paper analyzes the advantages of IP-based storage networking, storage systems infrastructure based on industry-standard servers, and a grid-based storage systems software strategy. IDC compares the benefits of each approach with evolving customer pain points and requirements.

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