Enterprises Converge Networks To Maximize IT Assets

Computerworld - DALLAS - For many of the IT professionals in attendance Storage Networking World here, mixing communications, server and storage networks is an attractive prospect. Some companies are already in the center of concentration on an IP network and others see it in their future.

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Still, there were a considerable commission of users who outline to stay with a three-tiered network architecture.

When polled by wireless devices, an assembly of a few hundred SNW attendees was broken up on the issue. Twenty-six percent indicated they outline to pierce to converged networks that use the Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol on their IP network; 13% responded they're going to an all IP network made up of NAS and iSCSI storage protocols together with storage by the open clouded cover ; 25% indicated they outline to keep their network infrastructure as is is to foreseeable future. However, 33% of respondents indicated they are "still classification out the hype" and perplexing to establish the cost of recabling. SNW sponsored by Computerworld.

Omer Siddiqui, emissary CIO of the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority, that serves 150,000 customers in the Washington area, mentioned his group is in the centre of deploying a "flat network" (consolidated Ethernet network) driven by a must be lower complexity.

"It was a wakeup call when one time you had to exercise a elementary put together or vegetable patch for our networks and it brought all to its knees," he said. "We came to the fulfilment that you had a really intricate set of switches and routers."

Siddiqui mentioned organizations should perform an annual evaluation of their networks to be able to obtain a photo of where and how many bottlenecks exist to be able to establish if there are areas for alleviation or even a total overhaul.

"We went by the evaluation. There are networks out there that have too many relocating tools and manageability becomes a nightmare," he said.

As DC Water and Sewer erect out its network of the future it is gripping in thoughts the need for scalability, and minimizing I/O latency. For example, can the network be used to rapidly muster new organizational network policies, Siddiqui said. "All these factors contributed to creation our decision," he said.

The group has finished the network pattern and is right away in the doing phase. As the H2O control implements a singular IP network to hoop all of its data, it is moreover expanding the attain of its network from 5 offices to scarcely 200 mobile trucks, that extends the network is to initial time outward of the company's firewall, so safety is a leading concern.

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