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To: T Bowl who wrote (7315)	11/9/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) of 9256

Todd, Yogi and all, The problem with network and storage demand is that there is too much of it. QWEST ran out of space for their Web hosting service in 2 weeks. Apparently, they thought they had enough servers for a year. A little stunning. From the Fibre Channel thread (P.S.: HDD finally has a high end FC drive with their new Atlas 10K. Not sure if anyone else but Seagate has one yet. Wouldn't it be nice if they started getting valuations like some of the FC switch and hub companies?): Message 11853968 Growing pains snag Qwest They also confirmed that Qwest's Web hosting facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., ran out of hosting space less than two weeks after it opened over the summer and the carrier has since been unable to fulfill new orders there. In northern California, Qwest officials say they misjudged demand for Web hosting in Sunnyvale and almost immediately ran out of space they expected to last for 12 months. The company is now building an additional 1.6 million square feet of hosting space nationwide. And in southern California, a user consultant who asked not to be identified charged that Qwest has had periods in which no ports were available on its two Nortel DMS 250 telephony switches November 8, 1999 Web posted at: 9:24 a.m. EST (1424 GMT) by David Rohde From... (IDG) -- Cracks are beginning to show in the shiny armor of America's newest national carrier. cnn.com

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