Will You Favor Standards-based Storage?
What are your hopes for SMI-S?
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Will you require SMI-S support of your future storage purchases?
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What part of the storage infrastructure is most in need of standards?
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Many storage vendors are busy building in the Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Management Interface Specification, (S...
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MI-S, a.k.a. Bluefin) to their products. This month, we tried to gauge storage managers' interest in SMI-S, and the jury is still out. Overall, more storage managers had high hopes (rating of 4 or 5) for SMI-S than low hopes (rating of 1 or 2): 34% to 31%. At the same time, an overwhelming majority will not require SMI-S support of future storage purchases. Arrays and software emerged as infrastructure pieces most in need of standards. As one reader wistfully put it: "It would be nice not to have three different applications to manage my SANs from three different vendors!"
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