Storage technology provider Incipient is proclaiming
2006 as an annus mirabilis, featuring what is says is storage
industry history by bringing to market its switch-resident storage
virtualisation software for Storage Area Network (San)
environments.
This accomplishment, boasts the firm, establishes it as an
innovator and leader in the storage virtualisation market and with
the 2006 release of its flagship product, the Incipient Network
Storage Platform (iNSP) software suite, the company claims it is
poised to meet the growing enterprise demand for data migration,
automated storage provisioning and copy services.
iNSP capabilities, delivered from the network, are designed to
allow companies to reduce the overall cost of managing, deploying
and operating San-based storage, hopefully resulting in a lower San
total cost of ownership (TCO).
“Eventually all data layer functions, such as storage, databases,
and file systems, will sit below a unified virtualisation layer,
which is critical to making the promise of IT as a service oriented
infrastructure real,” said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.
Its more significant accomplishments notwithstanding, Incipient
is on the right track when it believes that firms are showing an
appetite for enterprise-class storage virtualisation solutions
similar to their demand for server virtualisation market. The march
of virtualisation carried on across servers, desktops and now
storage. End-users will win by doing so. Properly, that is.
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