Storage Vendors Weigh Options at IDF

Transitions can be trying, whether they affect personal lives or computer lines. Changes of the latter sort were on the minds of attendees at last week's Intel Developer Forum here, especially when it came to storage. Discussion of new hardware standards dominated many panels at the conference, and products that incorporated them cropped up in booths across the show floor.

Along with system suppliers, purveyors of host adapter cards eyed developments in PCI Express. Storage vendors mulled recent developments in iSCSI networking as well as Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)hard drives. And others considered the pace of technology integration.

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