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Longer-term, the trend is for the data center and IT to become an information
utility, providing centralized information services, of which the storage utility is
one. Figure 9-1 shows where storage systems reside in the utility model. As IT
evolves toward this pay-as-you-go utility business model, small-medium business
executives should watch for additional developments in IP-based storage
networking (such as Internet Small Computer Systems Interface [iSCSI,
pronounced “eye-scuzzy”] and Fibre Channel over IP) and the convergence of
network attached storage (NAS) and SANs that will extend storage networking