The inexorable growth of the market for Ethernet storage continued in the first half of 2010 - in fact we’re getting very close to Ethernet storage being the majority of networked storage in the Enterprise.

According to IDC’s recent Q2 2010 Worldwide Storage Systems Hardware Tracker, Ethernet Storage (NAS plus iSCSI) revenue market share climbed to 45%, up from 39% in 2009, 32% in 2008 and 28% in 2007, as shown below.

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The inexorable growth of the market for Ethernet storage continued in the first half of 2010 - in fact we’re getting very close to Ethernet storage being the majority of networked storage in the Enterprise.

According to IDC’s recent Q2 2010 Worldwide Storage Systems Hardware Tracker, Ethernet Storage (NAS plus iSCSI) revenue market share climbed to 45%, up from 39% in 2009, 32% in 2008 and 28% in 2007, as shown below.

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The podcast about FCoE and iSCSI that I mentioned in my last blog is now posted on Storage Monkeys.

Check it out. Clearly, we were having way too much fun!

Tags: iSCSI, FCoE, Ethernet, convergence

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Well we’re already into Day 1 of Spring SNW, and the SNIA tutorials educational program is well under way.

I presented to a packed room at 9:20am on the subject of Server and Storage Consolidation with iSCSI Arrays - a great audience for the first session of the day.

Tuesday afternoon’s agenda includes pNFS, Parallel Storage for Grid, Virtualization and Database Computing by Pranoop Erasani (NetApp), and Thursday’s agenda includes two tutorials by Gary Gumanow (Dell) & Jason Blosil (NetApp) — iSCSI SANs: Ideal Applications, Large and Small, and iSCSI: A Lossless Ethernet Fabric with DCB. If you’re … Read the rest

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I spent the past few days wondering what my first post for SNIA on Ethernet Storage should be about, and finally arrived at this - despite the fact that it’s old news…

A couple of months ago Ben Hacker posted a great blog on The Server Room section of Intel’s communities site, talking about Intel and Microsoft’s performance benchmarking work on iSCSI over 10Gb Ethernet. The post is entitled “1,000,000 IOPS with iSCSI - That’s Not a Typo…” - check it out, it’s very enlightening.

Ben’s blog in turn pointed to a joint Microsoft/Intel webcast going into detail about … Read the rest