Storage industry limbers up for Rite of Spring
Comment What's happening in storage in the year to come? It seems lots of big product refreshes are coming. Here's the timeline as we understand it.
In March HP will finally introduce EVA 6400 and EVA 8400 updates to the existing 6100 and 8100 models, many months after a 4400 refreshed product was applied to the previous 4100 model. Expect larger capacity drives and, just maybe, the entry of SAS interconnects into these products, currently a Fibre Channel and FATA preserve.
These HP EVA boxes are classic two-controller modular arrays aimed at the heart of the storage array market. They compete with AMS arrays from HDS, FAS 3000-s from NetApp, Clariions from EMC, and the 6000 line from Sun StorageTek. EMC has introduced a solid state drive option for its CXS4 Clariions along with multiple I/O protocol support - think FCoE.
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