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On Their Minds: SANs, firewalls, storage suites -- Storage Vendors Invade Networld+Interop Joseph F. Kovar Atlanta - Storage area networks and other solutions will be on the minds-and in the booths-of many storage vendors when VARs visit the Networld+Interop show here this week. Overland Data Inc. plans to show a serverless backup system based on its tape libraries, said Steven Richardson, vice president of marketing at the San Diego-based vendor. Technology in a SCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridge attached to the libraries can issue a SCSI copy command directly to disk arrays attached to the SAN, allowing that data to be copied directly to tape without going through the server or LAN, he said. The Metastor Storage Solutions subsidiary of Milpitas, Calif.-based LSI Logic Corp. will introduce resellers to its Open SAN initiative, said Jim Griffin, director of marketing. The company is working with other hardware and software vendors to certify interoperability of four basic SAN applications, including storage consolidation, data sharing, backups and remote mirroring or copying for disaster recovery, he said. Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), Redmond, Wash., plans to introduce complete storage solution suites using ADIC arrays plus components from other vendors, all certified for interoperability, said Bryce Hein, product manager for the company's Fibre Channel products. VARs can sell the solutions to clients, with installation and setup done by the VAR or ADIC, he said. Support for the entire solution is expected to be provided by ADIC, said Hein. Procom Technology Inc., Santa Ana, Calif., is expected to demonstrate hardware and software bundles aimed at Internet-based businesses. The bundles will be based on the company's NetForce network-attached storage appliances and hardware and software from a number of other vendors, according to company executives. Onstream Inc., Longmont, Colo., will show its first drives designed for the server market, said Jim Jonez, director of product marketing. Onstream's ADR 70 drive offers up to 70 Gbytes of compressed capacity and an Ultra 2 Wide SCSI LVD interface. Internal and external versions are expected by year-end, he said. They will support Windows 2000 and NT, NetWare, Linux, Unix and other operating systems, he said. Dantze Development Corp., Orinda, Calif., will exhibit the latest version of its Retrospect backup software, said Craig Isaacs, vice president of sales and marketing. Instead of the traditional full backup with incremental daily backups, Retrospect takes snapshots of a disk drive as needed, and can do restores in a single pass, he said.