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April 16, 2008 (Computerworld) Aaron Martin likes to plan ahead. One year ago, the IT manager at Loro Piano, an Italian luxury goods manufacturer with U.S. operations in New York, plunked down $30,000 for a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet storage array from Nimbus Data Systems Inc. At the time, it was one of the only iSCSI-based storage systems available that took advantage of 10G bit/sec Ethernet speeds, with most systems supporting 1Gbit/sec Ethernet.

As a result, Martin had to do a bit of research to piece together the rest of the infrastructure, including an upgrade to his existing Cisco Systems Inc. Gigabit Ethernet switch and, later, a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet network adapter from Neterion Inc. Even his new ESX servers from VMWare Inc. — which he bought at the same time as the Nimbus array — did not support 10Gbit/sec Ethernet but instead tagged the Nimbus system at 1Gbit/sec Ethernet each.

Very cool, it’s interesting to see why and how different customers are implementing or ‘getting on’ with 10GB Ethernet. Check out this interesting article talking about 10GB Ethernet as well as virtualization.

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