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To: J Fieb who wrote (23235)	7/8/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: Mark J. Hardie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

The end of the day was breathtaking...wasn't it? I thought we were in for a long day when I got into the office. Neither this company nor the stock are for the fainthearted. Mark

To: J Fieb who wrote (23235)	7/10/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 29386

RE; CA.....Maybe the references to NO are to CA's showing of its SAN management ......... CA Adds Storage Management To Unicenter (07/09/99, 6:03 p.m. ET) By Mitch Wagner, InternetWeek Computer Associates said it plans later this month to upgrade its Unicenter TNG software to permit management of storage area networks, LANs and WANs from a single console. CA will integrate its ARCserveIT SAN<Picture> management software with Unicenter TNG to provide a single-console view for managing servers, network controllers and adapters, Fibre Channel switches, hubs and routers, and storage devices such as disk arrays, tape drives, and network-attached storage devices. Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy, rattled off a list of about 20 storage vendors whose products CA interoperates with, including Ancor, Brocade, Clariion, Compaq, Dell, EMC, and Network Appliance. CA will demonstrate the integrated version of Unicenter TNG at its upcoming CA-World 1999 conference in New Orleans. The management software will be able to discover and configure storage devices on the network, as well as report and correct problems with those devices. Pricing, which will depend on configuration, will start at $1,000 and is likely to run to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for large enterprises. "It's a good step forward, a very positive step forward," said analyst Dave Hill of the Aberdeen Group. "It's like anything else having to do with network management. You want to be able to understand what's happening at remote sites from a centralized location." Lack of Unix support will be a big hole in the product that CA should fill quickly, Hill said. In the first versions, the software will support Windows NT and Novell NetWare but not Unix servers, meaning that users will not be able to use Unicenter TNG to bring Unix servers such SAN benefits as Fibre Channel interconnects, sharing of storage devices across multiple servers and load balancing. CA expects to add Unix support for the SAN functionality late this year or early next year. Allan Mohess, product marketing manager for CA, noted that many of those benefits are available to third-party storage vendors -- for instance, tape-drive vendors support the sharing of tape drives between Unix and NT servers. CA calls its SAN strategy for Unicenter TNG SANITI, which stands for Storage Area Network Integrated Technology Initiative. <Picture: TW>