A More End-user Friendly SNW
19 October 2009 – As SNW nears 500 participants from its heyday of 2000 in attendance, vendors have been less enthusiastic to sponsor the event. This has the surprising and positive effect of making it a more intimate and end-user friendly event. On the expo floor there were the big booths of IBM, NetApp, F5 Networks and HDS but less presence from EMC, Cisco and Brocade than in years past. There were several interesting startups including Avere with their two staged SSD/HDD storage appliance and AutoVirt for data movement.
The end user presentations had a consistent theme of virtualization, as one would have expected, but the plans for more ambitious block virtualization and file virtualization were signs of change from our Wave 12 research (completed last April) where block and file virtualization started to slow among new customer deployments. We are completing our Wave 13 study this week and I expect to see renewed interest in block virtualization appliances, particularly, those with SSD embedded capabilities.
The end user presentations had a consistent theme of virtualization, as one would have expected, but the plans for more ambitious block virtualization and file virtualization were signs of change from our Wave 12 research (completed last April) where block and file virtualization started to slow among new customer deployments. We are completing our Wave 13 study this week and I expect to see renewed interest in block virtualization appliances, particularly, those with SSD embedded capabilities.
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