1. STORAGE ARCHITECTURE/ SMART SHOPPER: Rate the Disk System Vendors Presenter: Tony Asaro Senior Analyst Enterprise Strategy Group / ESG Lab Survey results presented by Ken Male, Founder/CEO, TheInfoPro

2. The disk system vendors: SAN

3. The disk system vendors: NAS

4. The disk system vendors: CAS

5. Innovations - SAN Distributed clusters Over provisioning Tiered storage advancements Stretching clusters Remote replication

6. Array-based remote replication Remote snapshots Array-based asynchronous RM Consistency groups In the fabric

7. Intelligence in the fabric Early adopters: Top 5 initial objectives of intelligent storage network deployment

8. iSCSI update Over 2,000 production implementations by EOY 2004 More products coming out this year from major storage vendors DAS to SAN conversions, departmental, FC to iSCSI conversions The economics are too compelling to ignore

9. SATA, FATA, SAS SATA has driven down storage TCO and enabled new applications and uses FATA is the FC alternative to SATA SAS is around the corner

10. Innovations - NAS Distributed clusters Scalable file system Single level of management WORM

11. Innovations - CAS Distributed clusters Single level of management Immutability Coalescence

12. Disk-to-disk backup Block-based NAS-based VTL