Comments on: Dell moves to top of growing iSCSI SAN market http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/dell-moves-to-top-of-growing-iscsi-san-market/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Tue, 14 May 2013 18:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chuck Hollis http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/dell-moves-to-top-of-growing-iscsi-san-market/#comment-7151 Chuck Hollis Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:48:07 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/06/dell-moves-to-top-of-growing-iscsi-market/#comment-7151 Hi Dave, great article!

Unforutnately, these numbers count “as sold” rather than “as built”. For some people, this matters, others perhaps not.

To be specific, as I understand it, HDS doesn’t get credit for sales through HP and Sun, NetApp doesn’t get credit for IBM sales, EMC doesn’t get credit for Dell, FSC and others, and so on.

Just something to keep in mind, as the various ranking change when you take this view.

Thanks!

]]> By: Carter George http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/dell-moves-to-top-of-growing-iscsi-san-market/#comment-7150 Carter George Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:10:20 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/06/dell-moves-to-top-of-growing-iscsi-market/#comment-7150 The rise of virtual machines and 10GbE are enablers for the rise of iSCSI. Personally, I don’t think FCoE will save Fibre Channel – it doomed in the long term. But just as those things enable iSCSI, I think iSCSI also enables others. Things that were too difficult and complex for many customers – such as clustered NAS, replication for DR, and tiered storage that required SAN’s – now become much easier when the SAN is the same switched Ethernet fabric you’ve been managing all along.
Big enterprises have had these things for a while, but iSCSI makes them much more feasible for the mid-sized enterprise. Dell, in particular, is in a unique position to provide value-add server-based features in front of its Equallogic arrays by hosting things like file serving, clustered NAS, and storage optimization on Dell servers and blades that could be bundled with and leverage Equallogic.

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