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Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009
17 July 2009
 
April Adams   Roger W. Cox   Valdis Filks   Joe Skorupa   Stanley Zaffos   John Monroe   Joseph Unsworth   Dave Russell   Pushan Rinnen   Robert E. Passmore   Anthony Kros   Phillip R. Sargeant   Donna Taylor  

With enterprises worldwide focusing on cost containment and improving efficiencies in a down economy, storage vendors continue to develop technologies targeted at those needs. This Hype Cycle evaluates 28 emerging storage hardware technologies and helps users decide where and when to invest.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 What You Need to Know
    
 The Hype Cycle
    
 The Priority Matrix
    
 On the Rise

    
 pNFS
    
 Converged Enhanced Ethernet
    
 Information Dispersal Algorithms
    
 Pole-Tip Storage
    
 Emerging Data Protection Schemes
    
 At the Peak

    
 Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
    
 File Virtualization Appliances
    
 Quality of Storage Service
    
 Online Data Compression
    
 MAID
    
 Storage Data Security
    
 Storage Bridge Bay
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

    
 Appliance-Based Replication
    
 Data Deduplication
    
 Enterprise-Grade Solid-State Drives
    
 Switch-Based Storage Virtualization
    
 Content-Addressed Storage
    
 Distributed Virtual Tape
    
 Thin Provisioning
    
 Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization
    
 Climbing the Slope

    
 iSCSI
    
 TCP/IP Offload Engines and iSCSI
    
 Wide-Area SANs
    
 Entering the Plateau

    
 Metro-Area SANs
    
 Array-Based Replication
    
 High-Capacity Optical Drives
    
 Low-Cost, High-Capacity Drives for RAID Configurations
    
 Serial Attached SCSI: HDD Interface
    
 Appendixes

    
 Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Hype Cycle Phases
 

Table 2.  
 Benefit Ratings
 

Table 3.  
 Maturity Levels
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009
 

Figure 2. 
 Priority Matrix for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009
 

Figure 3. 
 Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2008
 



Document History:
 
Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2009
17 July 2009
  
Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2008
11 June 2008
  
Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2007
19 June 2007
  
Hype Cycle for Storage Hardware Technologies, 2006
24 August 2006
  




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