SATA, SAS, SDD The path to enterprise cloud storage.

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Storage Market Trends


EMC has shutdown Atmos as a production system and continues to position tiering of SSD and SATA 6Gbps Drives as a cheap storage system.

Falconstor and Datadomain are creating FileSystems for high performance virtualization environments on SATA II.

Dell, NetApp, SUN/Oracle, and many other SAN Vendors continue to augment, grow, and modularize their platforms for redundancy and performance on SATA II.

Mathematical studies show the caching combination reduces error rates while increasing memory and flash based performance.

Now Emulex, QLogic, and several other well known Storage Fabric providers are moving into providing "Cloud Storage or Elastic Storage" based on SATA. The concept being base to cloud computing, major performance achieved through scaling at a 1/5th to 1/10th the cost of 15k+ drives.

Gartner predicts Fiber Channel disks will disappear in the next 3 to 4 years.

SSD and SATA will become a market price differentiator for Enterprise systems and continue to drive storage flexibility and innovation at the SAN, LAN, and even WAN caching and acceleration layer.



Reference Sources:
http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/network-attached-storage/hitachi-high-performance-nas-platform.html

http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-datasheet-hcp-technical.pdf

http://flickerdown.com/2009/06/emulex-e3s-fitment/

http://enterprise.media.seagate.com/

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is_5_25/ai_n15795453/

SATA SAN
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1364113_mem1,00.html
http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid187_gci1364112_mem1,00.html?ShortReg=1&mboxConv=searchDataBackup_RegActivate_Submit&

Companies turning to SATA
http://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid190_gci1363951_mem1,00.html

http://searchstoragechannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid98_gci1515551_mem1,00.html