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IBM beats SAN storage virtualization drum with Taneja report

posted on 24 June 2008 07:43

IBM leads the market - apart from HDS, all other solutions in their infancy

IBM is distributing a Taneja Group report that says IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) leads the Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) storage storage virtualization market with 4,000 units shipped while EMC 'is carrying InVista.'

It claims that while HDS has traction with its USP-based virtualization all other solutions are in their infancy. The report, entitled 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.3', concludes that storage virtualization is now coming of age and IBM, as the dominant player, is well-positioned to capitalize on it.

However, although the report mentions server virtualization and says storage virtualization can provide easy virtual guest movement and storage tiering, it does not go into any details of VMware-SVC interoperability and does not mention Hyper-V.

It is possible that iSCSI SANS with virtualized block-level storage, such as the LeftHand Networks products and others, will overtake SVC unit shipments and provide more block-level storage virtualization than it in the future.

Download the Taneja Group report below.

^{[Chris Mellor.]}

Download file: TanejaSVC.pdf