To: Gary Payton who wrote (68906 ) 11/3/1999 1:53:00 PM From: bobby is sleepless in seattle Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 120523
Gary Payton...dtlk... thanks for dropping the dime! Your very favorite, almost in shape, power forward, Vin Baker... Datalink to Demonstrate Live Storage Area Network at the Fibre Channel Technologies Conference and Expo. Business Wire - October 29, 1999 12:47 MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1999--At the Fibre Channel Technologies Conference and Expo (FCTC '99) in San Jose next week, Datalink Corporation (NASDAQ:DTLK) will demonstrate a live, switched-fabric Storage Area Network (SAN)--a pool of storage shared by multiple servers providing high-speed, high bandwidth connections. A SAN enables more powerful access and protection of business critical information--making it a key component for enterprise storage management. Deployed with fibre channel, SANs deliver greater scalability, reliability, availability, and recoverability. Datalink is at the forefront of heterogeneous SAN deployments in Open Systems enterprise environments. Datalink's exhibit (booth 515/513) features a live SAN illustrating LAN-free backup, heterogeneous shared disk, heterogeneous shared tape and dynamic tape allocation--a solution that enables corporate IT departments to achieve cost-saving, high-speed, high performance data access and storage management capabilities. Datalink will demonstrate its Open Systems expertise by integrating industry-leading technologies from BROCADE, Crossroads, Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems, JNI, StorageTek, and VERITAS Software in a multi-platform environment. During exhibit hours, a Datalink SAN expert will be available to answer questions and discuss the company's networked storage solutions. In addition, Datalink's Vice President of Engineering, Scott Robinson, will present a tutorial on Storage Area Networks, entitled "SANs: Real World Solutions," to conference attendees. Scheduled from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 4th, the tutorial presents an overview of the opportunities, realities and challenges in deploying SANs. Attendees will learn about SAN building blocks; explore LAN-free backup implementation; hear about an actual SAN implementation; and learn about the next stage in SAN deployment--shared storage. FCTC '99, held November 2-4 at the San Jose Convention Center, provides practical information on Fibre Channel system-related design issues including storage area networks, and more. For more information about FCTC '99, log on to www.fibreconference.com. About Datalink Datalink Corporation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the industry's leading independent provider of networked storage solutions for Open Systems computing environments. Designed to store, access, and protect business critical information, the Company's solutions are developed using best-of-breed technologies and professional services. A comprehensive suite of services - analysis, design, integration, implementation, training, technical support, and maintenance - are delivered by Datalink's multi-tiered professional services organization.