This results in better bandwidth maintenance, easier and faster data backups and transfers, and improvements in managing data. Storage Area Networking is poised for dramatic growth during the coming years. But the industry faces a number of issues in standards support, including that not all storage devices communicate using the same protocols and storage protocols and, as they stand today, do not interact with the IP protocols for local and wide-area networks. These obstacles must be overcome before vendors can enter the SAN marketplace with a strong value proposition. Companies such as Gadzooks and Brocade deliver switches that are used internally in Fibre Channel networks.
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