My Data Center Cystal Ball, What's Your's?
CY2010: Data centers will have either pure iSCSI or FC implementation, from storage point of view
- 10Gigabit Standard Ethernet adaptation for consolidating 1Gigabit Ethernet infrastructures to support virtualized data centers accelerating data center consolidation.
- SAN traffic continues to converge on to Standard Ethernet with iSCSI implementations (mostly Greenfield deployments) and 10GE infrastructures. 10GE iSCSI arrays become common in storage deployments furthering iSCSI adaptation.
- FC networks remain separate, while 10Gigabit Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE is evaluated by early adaptors of these technologies, as products get released in the later in 2010.
CY2011-2014: Data centers will have mixed iSCSI & FC/FCoE.
- As Enhanced Ethernet standardizes in the middle of 2010, and early standard based products become available by the end of 2010, evaluation of 10GEE starts.
- During mid 2011, existing FC infrastructures start to merge with early deployments of 10Gigabit Enhanced Ethernet networks with FCoE capabilities promoted by investment protection strategy.
- At the same time iSCSI deployments leverage benefits of Enhanced Ethernet, furthering it’s adoption. New storage deployments will be either 10G iSCSI or 8G FCoE arrays.
- This pattern will continue till 40G Enhanced Ethernet products start shipping some time 2012-2013 accelerating the adoption of iSCSI further. 16G FCoE arrays start showing up during that time as an alternative to iSCSI.
- 40GEE evaluations and early adoptions at the core network throughout 2014 in to 2015.
CY2015 and beyond: Data centers will have converged storage (predominantly iSCSI and to some extent FCoE to attach older storage infrastructure).
- Converged Enhanced Ethernet networks become mainstream as 40Gigabit Ethernet deployments in the core networks and 10Gigabit Ethernet at the edge becomes common.
- iSCSI based Storage arrays becomes predominant due to high speeds and performance as compared to FC/FCoE arrays.
- 100G Enhanced Ethernet!!
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