Summary
- IBM says 2000 will be the year of the SAN, but other suppliers believe the technology will not take off until next year.
- The lack of interoperability between SAN products remains a barrier to adoption.
- Compaq has launched the Open SAN Initiative to address the interoperability problem.
- McData has a testing programme to test integration between SAN offerings from different vendors so it can offer a range of proven SAN solutions.











