 Hi, I'm Peter Burris, and this is a Wikibon action item quick take David Floyer Lot of new opportunities for thinking about how we can spread data, but that puts new types of pressure and networks. What's going on? so What's interesting today is the future of networks and in particular one type of network. So if we generalize a Generalize about networks you can have simplicity which is NFV for example that work function virtualization is incredibly important for you can have scale reach the number of different Places that you place data and how you can have the same Admin for that and you can have performance. Those are three things and there's usually a trade-off between those you can you Very very difficult to have all three What's interesting is that Melanox have defined one piece of that network the storage network as a place where performance is absolutely critical and They've defined this storage network with an emphasis on this performance using ethernet Why because now ethernet can offer the same point-to-point? capabilities no lost capabilities the fastest Switches are in ethernet now They go to up to 400 has been announced, which is much much 100 gigabits per second Which is much faster than any anybody else for any other protocol so and The reason for one of the major reasons for this is that volume is coming from the cloud providers So they are providing a Statement that storage networks are different from other networks. They need to have very low latency They need to have high bandwidth. They need to have no loss They need this point-to-point capability so that things can be done very very fast indeed I think their vision of where storage networks go is very sound and that is what all storage vendors need to take heed of and and CIO CTOs need to take heed of is that type of network is going to be what is in the cloud and it's going to come to the Enterprise data center very quickly David Foyer. Thank you very much Bottom line ethernet storage area networks segmentation still going to happen. Yeah I'm Peter Burris. This has been a Wikibon Action Island Quick Take