SAS is the best data storage protocol

SAS or serial attached SCSI is the protocol with the best promise for the data storage industry.

The reasons why SAS or serial attached SCSI is likely to be successful

• SAS or serial attached SCSI uses technology that already exists in current internet infrastructure
• Performance of SAS or serial attached SCSI is almost as good as Fibre channel, with the time tested features of SCSI

Virtualization for data replication, mirroring. Unlimited power in virtualization

Virtualization has evolved to support data migration, data replication and mirroring. In fact, data replication server vendors now openly tout the benefits of virtualization products in data migration.

Why do virtualization products now offer data migration features? Imagine you run a data center with Windows boxes on a SAN- if virtualization tempts you to add a Linux box - you had better use data replication, data mirroring or some other storage technique to ensure that you can recover your data after the inevitable server crashes

EMC's Invista platform for virtualization touts data migration as a major product feature - in fact some customers may be tempted to buy the product for the data migration features.