Final Words
The products were technically diverse, from basic USB connected Optical drives all the way up to Fibre Channel Disk Arrays.
We were impressed with the fact that many hardware vendors are moving towards supporting specific archiving solutions instead of trying to shoehorn clients into a one-size-fits-all modified backup solution.
As you can see this is a very complex field given the range and size of archiving jobs enterprises have ahead of them. We didn't give awards this month because no two products were really comparative or indeed even the same technology, from NAS to DAS and IDE through to FC disks, but they fit into a bigger system, that of allowing enterprises to tailor their archiving solution to their environment.
