A relatively new technology is arriving in India and Bangalore has taken the lead in organising the first major event on it - the storage networking summit, attended by some of the global experts in the field, which will be on till the 23rd.
Just as mainframes have given way to servers and distributed processing, independent and dedicated data storage systems are giving way to networked and shared data storage which is hugely scalable and cost effective.
Ashok Soota, CII president and a leading IT personality in his own right, sees in this new business opportunities for Indian IT.
To reap these opportunities there is a need to get into the positive reinforcing cycle of a new technology giving birth to new applications which in turn will create new demand.
The new opportunity in data management requires data to be stored, managed, mined and protected and the platform for this is storage area networking.
The opportunity for India is two-fold - product realisation, and mining of data and remote servicing through BPO.
Kumar Mahavalli, cofounder of Brocade and one of the global leaders in the technology, sees the big challenge before storage area networking (SAN) as the need to take it to
