Storage Networking Industry Association’s SMI-S “is moving too slow” Storage networks must develop “autonomic information infrastructures,” says EMC’s Burt Kalisky. Ethernet will eventually win out over Fibre Channel as the dominant storage network, says Jay Kidd. Cisco’s Rajeev Bhardwaj: “Services-oriented SANs” that will seamlessly extend intelligent fabric applications to heterogeneous devices anywhere in the network. HP’s Patrick Eitenbichler: “We continue to see far too much vendor lock-in, which is getting worse with some of the proprietary virtualization appliances””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/challenges-from-the-vendor-view