sms
On 2/18/2014 7:45 AM, -hh wrote:

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Alan Baker
Very true, but this is following the traditional paradigm that fast storage can only be local storage...the Fibre Channel SANs are saying "no longer necessarily so", and the question is while that is fine for a larger business with deeper resource pockets, what's the technological ramifiations for Small/Medium Businesses (SMBs) and "One Man" operations? To what degree are they going to get pinched?

sms
The larger businesses aren't using Macs so they are not being squeezed one way or the other.

Macs have a huge following in the "one man operations." Typically a Macbook for work out in the field and a Mac Pro at the office (often a home office) for the real work requiring multiple monitors and higher performance. But a Core i7 with two high performance graphics cards and a RAID array of hard drives is sufficient for most of these users. The new Mac Pro is really overkill for many current Mac Pro users, offering greater CPU performance than they can use while eliminating the expandability of earlier Mac Pros. These users have other options, they can build a system themselves and get exactly what they want, but they're usually not the type to start a hardware project in the Hackintosh vein.