Solutions : Universal Storage (SAN/NAS)

Unified Storage Management allows access across heterogeneous platforms via block or file protocols. This is the "Holy Grail" of Storage Resource Management (SRM). The technologies that are central to achieving this goal include heterogeneous virtualization and grid computing.

You might call this SAN/NAS convergence with support for all forms of back-end storage. FC, SCSI, SAS, SATA solutions from vendors in this arena include:

Universal/Unified Storage Solutions
  1. Reldata 9200 Unified Storage Gateway
  2. Hitachi (HDS) Network Storage Controller
  3. Hitachi (HDS) Universal Storage Platform