Leading market research firm The D’Plata Group today released their sesquicentennial report on the future of data center networking. One surprising prediction in the report was that the still experimental Fibre Channel over Token Ring protocol will become the dominant data center storage protocol in 2020. The report uses the now familiar hockey stick shaped graph to indicate that FCoTR sales will start small in 2012 but will grow exponentially, exceeding Fibre Channel and FCoE in market share in 2020. By 2030 FCoTR will have 99.44% market share for SAN interconnects.
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