Interesting article on SGI SAN approach.
nwfusion.com
NOTE: If you read the article the reference to Brocade [as i understand it] is a generic reference to switch makers as in "for example" or "such as" not a specific reference to Brocade as a supplier. The writer [Deni Conner] was gracious enough to clarify and expand on his remarks to me via e-mail. He went on to elaborate "In fact, the host bus adapter and switch will come from Prisa, the hub from Emulex, the RAID/JBOD from Ciprico, Clariion and EMC, tape from STK, and storage management from Legato and Veritas. I believe Ancor is also supplying a switch. "
Neil
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Excerpts:
<<"SGI is the first server company that has been able to leverage its development in clustering and data-sharing capabilities, which they developed for servers, into the storage area network. They, unlike everyone else, have not divorced the server engineering from the SAN engineering," says Tom Lahive, senior analyst at Dataquest in Lowell, Mass. "They have a real live working solution now.">>
<<This year, SGI will ship SAN products focusing on digital media installations and utilize that experience in the next year towards its IRIX and Windows NT-based enterprise servers and workstations. The SAN will comprise a host bus adapter, switch or hub, a RAID or just a bunch of disks (JBOD) system, tape storage, management software and services, starting at $56,000.>>
<<In the second half of 2000, SGI will extend its SAN approach to Sun Solaris and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX servers, increasing their heterogeneous reach.>>
<<SGI's SAN approach is to offer centralized storage and storage management, much like EMC Software, but on a wider range of networks. In addition, to increase its high-availability, SGI will offer LAN-free backup and enhanced FailSafe 2.0, an eight to thirty two-way cluster of storage devices.>>
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