The storage industry is in for some change.
Biggest Developments:
Cool Technologies to watch
De duplication
On Client DeDupe
On Server, On the fly dedupe
On Server Post backup dedupe
duplicates within a system
duplicates between systems
incremental file differences in the same file on the same system
incremental file differences in a different file on the same system
incremental file differences in the same file on a different system
incremental file differences in a different file on a different system
Thin provisioning
RDMA related terms
iWARP=the infiniband RDMA protocol ported to Ethernet
iWARP=A suite of wire protocols comprised of RDMAP, DDP, and MPA. The iWARP protocol suite may be layered above TCP, SCTP, or other transport protocols.
RDMAP=Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol, operates over DDP
DDP=Direct Data Placement Protocol
ULP=Upper Layer Protocol, a kernel bypass protocol, upper level applications (NFS, iSCSI,
OS) can use ULP instead of traditional sockets.