Storage Developer Conference '07

I attended this conference for first time here in San Jose and it was a great experience. (i like the venue)

Key take away from this conference are:

• move towards application(i call this as AOS- Application Oriented Storage)
• move towards general purpose hardware & cheap hardware
• move towards open standards
• move towards open source (Aperi is an example)
  
• raise of Ethernet and slow death of Fibre Channel?
• It looks like FCoE is the bridge for move towards ether?
• XML/Webservice for management

So, it looks like a big shift is starting in the storage world!