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Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies
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To: KJ. Moy who wrote (2137)8/7/2000 5:49:38 PM
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It seems to me that most of the hot air is coming from the newer data networking vendors who may excel at moving data from point A to point B as fast and as reliably as possible, but who seem to be unable to grasp the thorny nuances of core and edge storage asset management. My reference to ESCON, the original SAN, was to make the same point that you made: when it comes to its information lifeblood, corporations will tend to be conservative and WILL demand that their vendors provide coherent roadmaps and smooth transitions. IBM's large mainframe ESCON installed base, for example, is moving to fibre channel first with FICON bridge cards built into the ESCON director switches then with native FICON silicon so it can continue to be networked at the core (with more geographical options offered by FC) and distributed rationally to the edge of the enterprise. At issue, of course, is better access to information, centralized management and physical control of the storage assets.
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