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To: Christian Atallah who wrote (6699)	6/11/1999 8:37:00 AM
From: bob gauthier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

HP Storage I attended a HP storage systems product presentation yesterday and left very unimpressed. Their flagship product, the MC256, is basically a repackaged Hitachi 7700E. It is about the same size, capacity, performance of the EMC high end boxes but without the flexibility. When asked about attachment to AS/400 or Stratus boxes the answer was "We will look into that". The HP SAN initiative is called the Storage Node Manager and is targeted for third quarter availability. It does not seem very robust and again does not have the EMC scope of support. Much was made about HP's participation in the SNAI (sp). I asked if HP was a member of the FiberAlliance and was greeted with silence. The same is true of the HP connection components, Surestore E switch F16, Surestore E hub L10, Surestore E bridge FC 4/2. Mixed platforms and OS's through these components is not supported. Much was made about the EMC single point(s) of failure. All channel interfaces and device interfaces are singly connected to one of two internal buses (Hitachi duplexes all bus connections). The EMC has a single write cache (Hitachi duplexes the write cache). Hitachi uses dual ported disk drives, EMC single ports. HP indicates these single points of failure prevent EMC from achieving "59" initiative, 99.95% uptime. In reality I believe the units are equal in reliability. These are just my notes and opinions. Bob Gauthier