Remote data storage

ZDNet has a story on IBM developing iBoot, an extrentsion to iSCSI. You basically have a logical hard drive on a server, and that would be your primary drive. Similar to Mainframe-client, but the client uses its own resources to process.

Aside from allowing access to greater storage capacity, IBM researchers say using centralized storage instead of internal drives can help companies cut PC maintenance costs, saving on procedures like software upgrades for PCs. And, they say, iBoot could eventually boost server performance by letting manufacturers build thinner, diskless servers that can be stacked more closely together in a rack. iBoot also lets companies remotely boot PCs, without making changes to Windows or Linux software