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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1741)1/23/2000 3:58:00 PM
From: George Dawson  Read Replies (2) of 4808
 
RE: Server I/O 2000: Tsunami Alert

Douglas - many thanks for the outstanding report. I had a few quick observations:

"Justin Rattner of Intel gave FC five years, the others thought FC should have a healthy market for the next ten years. By then FC could be another lingering legacy from the last century, or a horse of a different stripe."

It is always interesting to look at rhetorical comments. I guess the difference that I see in this case is that FC is going to be linked to yottabytes of data on magnetic storage that is going to continue to be important. Not that we are culturally used to having all of our important and personal data available to us on line - will we be satisfied scrapping it after 5 or ten years. What will happen to all that stored data layered by the interconnect speeds in server farms? The futurist tells us that there will be all optical storage and networks to get at this, but it seems less clear to me. From a political standpoint FC was easier to kill in the LAN than the SAN.

"Andy Bechtolsheim from Cisco turned a few heads when his presentation depicted embedded IP and 100Gb Ethernet as an interconnect for IB and Storage Area Networks. I wonder if he and George Gilder are drinking buddies. Justin Rattner of Intel replied that 100Gb and IP was fine at the edge and beyond, but they had no place as an IB transport."

Sounds like a case continuing to use the ethernet word for leverage here. We all remember how it was marched out for the GE rollout. Do you mean 10 Gbps GE rather than ethernet? I though Gilder's point was that the storage future was 10 Gbps GE + NAS?

Great job,

George

Just a link for some notes on the rate of expansion of networked data and how it compares for example to all the words spoken by humans to date:

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For present day comparison, external RAID vendors sold $15.4B in external RAID last year. That's a lot of gigabytes.
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