On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, mark wrote:
To an extent filer clusters are SAN's. I personally think NAS is superior to SANs architecturally, even if NAS's use SAN's.
I personally think that the distinction between NAS and SAN is artificial and protocol based. In the future I think that SANs will become closer to NASes and NASes closer to SANs eventually merging into one network. I think the distinction is just as artificial as dividing wireless, telco, and dataco. They're all merging now. "In the end there can be only one!" ;)
will come along and say 'We could do all this with one proper network!' and I'll just shake my head and cry.
I think that's where SANs are going. In my opinion they're a newer and more versatile technology. I think that the role of a NAc will eventually be pushed down to the disk drive. Intelligence is getting cheaper and cheaper, why not finally put it into the drive.
Tom