INTC branches out...but is kind of late, will they need to build a big SAN and need some FC help??
mercurycenter.com
Intel makes big move to
Internet
NEW YORK (AP) -- Computer chip maker Intel
Corp., recognizing that there are billions of dollars to
be made on the Internet, is planning a big move
online by creating a data-services center.
Intel itself will not become an Internet service
provider, but it will provide outsourcing services to
those companies.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based microprocessor giant
will set up data centers with thousands of powerful
computers known as servers to provide data processing, storage and other
computing services for companies that connect users to the Internet.
Intel chief executive officer Craig Barrett told the Wall Street Journal that the
company is taking advantage of the rapid growth of electronic commerce to
position itself as the ''building-block supplier to the Internet economy.''
Gerhard Parker, a longtime manufacturing executive who was appointed to
head Intel's new business ventures last year, told the Journal that the new
venture will likely bring Intel into competition with companies such as IBM
Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Inc.
But analysts told The New York Times Intel is a late entrant into the market,
far behind IBMand Exodus Communications Inc., and doubt that the chip
maker has any advantage in running da
IBMs strong Q.......
Revenues from business services, through which IBM installs and runs
corporate computers, rose 19 percent to $7.6 billion.
Chief financial officer Douglas Maine said during a conference call with
analysts that IBM had received nine service contracts worth nearly $10
billion in the quarter -- including deals with AT&T Corp., CompUSA, Ford
Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Trust -- and now has contracts totaling $55 billion.
Chairman and chief executive Louis Gerstner said in a statement that the
Don't worry about holgraphic storage making all optical SANs a reality for awhile.....
upside.com
tuffing 30 Terabytes Into
Dice
Lab Watch
April 23, 1999
by Robert Buderi
.......
Formidable obstacles remain. One is that
refractive changes only last about 10 seconds
at room temperature. Another is that there's
no way to selectively erase data: Everything
must go in order to eliminate even one bit.
Undeterred, Linke and NEC researcher
Warren Smith have patented a "dynamic
refresh" technology designed to read out and
rewrite data every few seconds. It won't be
reliable enough for archival storage, but it
might do for security camera footage, for
instance. Moreover, Linke notes, a refresh
scheme solves the data-erasing problem
because users can choose to rewrite only the
portions they want.
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