Storage area networks are the future of enterprise storage, period. Volvo Cars of North America has caught on to the fact that PDAs can be productivity-enhancing devices. Network managers often find themselves torn between keeping their users happy and guarding against Internet bandwidth hogs able to sap the network of its computing resources. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Circuit switching is dead.
Well, maybe not dead, but it certainly has a terminal disease. The Internet and the rise of e-commerce are changing how companies manage security for enterprise networks.