Strategy: Application-Aware Networks
RoboNets: Application-Aware Networks Advance
Remember the Sun Microsystems marketing tagline from the late ’90s that proclaimed “The Network Is the Computer”? At that time, it was just a catchy slogan. But if recent moves by Brocade, Cisco, HP, IBM, VMware and others are any indication, Sun seems prescient, as this concept is becoming a central theme of how networks will function in the not-too-distant future. No longer are switch vendors content with supplying the hardware (and software) to make the network a “dumb” medium for carrying data. They’re demanding a bigger chunk of the computing market and putting their R&D dollars on the line to make it happen. We examine what that means for enterprises.
Table of Contents
3 Author's Bio
4 Power Grab
4 Figure 1: Drivers of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Deployment
5 What's Driving This Bus
6 RoboNet
7 Figure 2: Storage Purchased from Server Vendor?
8 Strategy Summary
8 Figure 3: Unified Storage and Data Network Plans
About the Author
Ashish Nadkarni, principal consultant, brings more than 10 years of experience designing and implementing complex storage solutions to GlassHouse. Ashish has spoken on storage issues at such conferences as The National Association of Information Destruction and Storage World. Before joining GlassHouse, he was a senior systems architect at Genuity; a senior systems engineer at Computer Sciences Corp.; and a training and education consultant at EMC.
Ashish holds a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Pune, India, and is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP).
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