RAID Storage--Exploring All Channels

"It is our view that gigabit ethernet in front of the server is clearly the solution of choice, whereas on the back end of the server, it is equally clear that fibre channel is rapidly displacing SCSI," contends Ray Leach, president of Publishing Solutions.

"With both technologies—gigabit ethernet and fibre channel—a new paradigm has been created," Leach adds. "The data packets are delivered to and from the server in excess of the server's ability to process the packets internally. With gigabit ethernet and fibre channel technology, today's networks and storage interconnects no longer are the bottlenecks of a prepress workflow—that goes to the server."