Storage In 2003 From Infoworld Staff Serial ATA and iSCSI generated a wave of innovative products in 2003. A faster, more flexible drive interface than traditional ATA, Serial ATA quickly found a home in servers, NAS appliances, and even SAN arrays, where it contributed to higher storage capacities at lower costs. In addition to testing hard disk drives and controllers based on the new standard, where we found levels of performance that can challenge SCSI, we reviewed a number of NAS boxes built around Serial ATA drives. In the case of Okapi Software’s ipXcelerator, Serial ATA combined with iSCSI, the new standard for IP-based storage networking, to produce a disk-based backup appliance. Internet SCSI was also the magic behind StorageTek’s disk-based backup and data protection appliance, and impressive IP-based SAN solutions from EqualLogic, Intransa, and LeftHand Networks. [InfoWorld: Storage]
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