John Spiers from Lefthand has a blog called the Virtual View. I love blogs like this. You get the true unfiltered opinion from these guys. There are a few blogs like this where the owners truly let it all out for the world to see and it’s really needed. Sometimes sales depts can start throwing numbers and specs and it can get kind of blurry. To have someone like John just putting the truth out there it really helps to see who is behind the scenes and what they are about.

John’s blog of course focuses on their SAN/iQ offering but as more posts have appeared he’s started to post about other items that relate to it. Like how awesome (it really is!) iSCSI is compared to it’s older but aging competitor Fiber Channel. He brings up a lot of good points that companies need to look at as they move forward or begin looking at the differences between the two. Even with FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) FC still has a long way to go.

Note: We still haven’t bought our SAN solution yet and I wasn’t paid for this post. :)