Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Unified data storage will exceed NAS, SAN, or DAS sales.
The concept of NAS or SAN went away several years ago. Unified storage, NAS and SAN in the same system with one management console is a given, but it took SMBs a while to catch on to this concept. Most unified data storage systems are incredibly easy to implement, operate and manage, and costs for these systems are dropping rapidly. Even big vendors like EMC Corp. and NetApp have exceptional SMB offerings. Also, most SMBs have both file and block storage. Unified storage consolidates storage and admin tasks, and increases data storage availability in the same manner that server virtualization does for servers
