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To: Technocrat who wrote (23224)	7/10/1999 2:27:00 PM
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==== Part II of FC Observations ===== * Fibre channel drives actually cost a little less to make than SCSI. I did not know this. * IBM's 3.5" drive which formats to nearly 40Gb is commercially available in quantity. Plus they are cheap. In other words, Seagate blew their 18-month FC lead and let IBM take the reins. IBM is suppose to come out with the 80Gb drive "real soon now" which means backup is going to become an acute problem. * Dell's multi-billion dollar pact with IBM had a lot to do with disk drive technology. Mikey and Louis on the same team, yikes! I bought more DELL stock. Cheap mail-order PCs are going to start having very large drives by next quarter. * Vixel is well respected in the FC world. Every lab I visited has Vixel equipment. They have more influence than I originally thought. * I heard grumbling regarding Sun's StoreX product. It is not as good as it should be as far as customers are concerned. Sun is working on it so I am told. * I gained new respect for EMC's approach to FC. They built an extremely reliable approach to mainframe storage by essentially creating disk drives in memory in a caching type of arrangement. IBM mainframes are very picky about how they talk to disk drive farms and EMC solved the problem by building a foolproof, but very expensive, solution. EMC has had less success in convincing Open Systems (Unix) shops to pay mainframe prices, however. EMC is putting a lot of eggs in the future of SAN management and storage service. --- Ice, when you asked EMC's IR if they were using Brocade switches a la McData, are you sure their denial was not limited to the mainframe stuff? * SAN management is still a black art. There are good opportunities for outside companies to write software which could tune a configuration. * One theme I heard over and over again was that the storage guys are making many of the same mistakes the networking folks tripped over ten years ago. Hiring experienced networking engineers could accelerate future development. * Speculation is that GE and FC are close enough in timing that with a little electrical engineering wizardry, FC could carry GE. 3COM and Cisco are aware of this. I have yet to smoke out anyone who will admit to doing these bench experiments. Wouldn't that be interesting? * Both Ancor and Brocade have a lot of innovation to look forward to. The future will make current setups look like the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk. Declaring any company the eventual winner of FC switch space is premature. * To put the previous bullet into perspective, I got to see throughput numbers obtained from a stock Dell NT server fitted out with two QLogic adapters pumping out bytes to the maximum bus speeds. The numbers are in the same range as top of the line supercomputers a few years ago. Fibre channel is going to be an interesting ride...

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