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Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas Zoran who wrote (1730)	1/19/2000 12:51:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Thomas Z., Looks like you are getting things all set! Here is some light late night reading for those who want to know more........ Wednesday January 19, 9:11 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Osborne/McGraw-Hill Releases the Network Administrator's Guide To SANs, NAS, and Network Storage BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000--Storage networking has emerged as a major new technology as networking professionals consider the best ways to improve the reliability and accessibility of corporate and Internet data. Until now, there has not been any single resource that encompasses the entire spectrum of this expanding field. Now Osborne McGraw-Hill announces the publication of Building Storage Networks, a comprehensive analysis to help in designing and implementing SANs, NAS, RAID, backup and many other storage network technologies. The book includes a foreword by John McArthur, Director of Worldwide Storage Research at IDC. Analysts currently estimate network storage as a $13 billion-dollar industry, a figure that is expected to triple by 2001. This year's I/O Technologies Forum in Monterey, Calif. on Jan. 17-20 includes such industry luminaries as Compaq, Intel, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, IBM and a long list of other companies that have been developing and establishing storage networking technologies and products. ``Businesses simply have to find ways to deal with their exploding storage problems,' according to Michael Peterson, President of Strategic Research and developer of the I/O Technologies Forum, ``there is a tremendous learning curve that needs to be tackled. Building Storage Networks should be on the top of everybody's reading list.' Endorsed by SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, Building Storage Networks illustrates how the broad range of network storage technologies operate in the real world and includes network blueprints visually demonstrating storage concepts and topologies. Author Marc Farley, an authority on storage networks, gives readers a thorough analysis with ample illustrations to make this difficult subject easy to understand. According to Farley, ``The intent from the beginning was to write a comprehensive book that networking professionals will use for jump-starting their own storage networks and avoiding costly mistakes.' Farley will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Storage Networking World Spring 2000 event, presented by Computerworld and SNIA in Palm Desert, Calif. on April 17-19. ``Storage networking is at the center of the current eBusiness boom which is why it is so important for our readers. In addition to the coverage that our editors give to this important segment, Computerworld co-sponsors Storage Networking World with Storage Networking Industry Alliance,' said Ronald Milton, vice president and general manager, Computerworld Enterprise Business Solutions. ``It was a natural for us endorse and support Building Storage Networks.' About the Author Marc Farley (San Jose, Calif.) started working with network storage technology in 1991 at Palindrome Corporation as a systems engineer and has been in the network storage ever since working in business development, product management and strategic marketing roles at Hitachi, Crossroads Systems, ConvergeNet. He is currently the Vice President of Marketing at SanCastle Technologies, a company designing and building Gigabit networking switching fabrics. Farley is the author of numerous white papers and magazine articles on storage I/O technology. He was a contributing author to the Handbook of Networking and Connectivity published in 1994 by Academic Press and was the lead author of The LAN Times Guide to Security and Data Integrity published by Osborne McGraw-Hill in 1996. About the Publisher The Osborne Media Group, headquartered in Berkeley, is a leading publisher of self-paced computer training materials that include user and reference guides; best-selling series on computer certification; high level but practical titles on networking, communication, and programming; and the hottest titles on new web development tools. With its established strategic publishing relationships with Oracle, Corel, Global Knowledge, J.D. Edwards, and Intuit, The Osborne Media Group is targeting consumer support, emerging technologies, and innovative applications for developing future computer books. Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leading information services provider meeting worldwide needs in education, business, finance, the professions and government. The corporation employs 16,500 people located in more than 400 offices in 32 countries. Sales in 1998 were $3.7 billion. For more information visit osborne.com. BUILDING STORAGE NETWORKS by Marc Farley Pages: 656 pp Price: $44.99 Publication Date: January, 1999 ISBN: 0-07-212050-9 An Osborne/McGraw-Hill Book -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: McGraw-Hill

To: Thomas Zoran who wrote (1730)	1/19/2000 2:19:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

Your timing seems just about perfect........ More EMC info bits........ aolpf.marketwatch.com EMC computes big gains Information storage keeps growing By Larry Kofsky, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 12:40 PM ET Jan 19, 2000 Commentary Letters to the Editor NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- At the beginning of the 1990s, most of us measured our data in kilobytes on a floppy disk. "In the last five years the amount of information has grown by 500 percent. In the next five years it's going to grow by 1,800 percent. So it's going to grow twice as fast in the next five years as it did in the last five years." Michael Ruettgers, president and CEO, EMC Corporation By the end of 1999, that old floppy was nearly obsolete. And we measured our data in megabytes and gigabytes. EMC Corporation (emc) is focused exclusively on data storage and retrieval and related businesses. During the 1990s its stock was up more than 81,000 percent, according to the New York Stock Exchange. It was the top gainer among S&P 500 companies listed on the Big Board. Michael Ruettgers, president and CEO of EMC Corporation talked recently about the company's success with CBS MarketWatch.com. CBSMW: Is the growth of your company a reflection of the increased amount of data that needs to be stored? Ruettgers: Yes it is. We have some ".com" companies that will have purchased as much from us last year, in 1999, as the entire mainframe market was five years ago. So if you can imagine 9,000 sites worldwide, one of these ".com" companies now has more information stored than all 9,000 of those mainframe sites did. CBSMW: So your business has grown along with the entire data storage industry? Ruettgers: Right. Everybody wants more access to information. As an industry we've been able to drive the cost of information down, so it actually is possible to store enough data about you personally to be able to market products to you, and to have them be products that you're interested in receiving CBSMW: And there are new kinds of data -- video and audio vs. what we started the decade with, which was plain text and little more. Ruettgers: That's right. Mainly financial information at the beginning of the decade. Today it's rich media , it's video, it's audio. But it's also a huge amount of information being collected from lots of sources about individuals so that companies can market to them more effectively. And, as we say, if people are getting their information online, it's typically on EMC. CBSMW: Has the technology of data storage changed? If you look at the hard drive inside a personal computer, on the outside it isn't much different than it was eight or 10 years ago. But obviously what's inside is very different. Ruettgers: The hardware is roughly the same, except that you're able to store much more information today in that space than you did ten years ago. The software makes the difference. We can do things with software that wasn't possible previously. And it's this ability, particularly with the software that we have, that allows us to be as successful as we are. CBSMW: And what do we see looking ahead? Will we see a continuation of this explosion in the quantity of data that we have seen in the last few years? Ruettgers. The most recent study I've seen says that in the last five years the amount of information has grown by 500 percent. In the next five years it's going to grow by 1,800 percent. So it's going to grow twice as fast in the next five years as it did in the last five years. CBSMW: And is the nature of that data going to become richer? As we have gone from text to video, are we going to go from here on to even richer types of data? Ruettgers: Yes, richer. You'll see a variety of ways in which that will be true. You'll also see the fact that we'll be able to collect more information and make more use of it very quickly, for instance in fraud detection systems. If somebody uses your credit card, you'll know instantaneously. We'll be collecting large amount of data and making it available anytime, anywhere at the speed of light. CBSMW: And will the technology simply improve on today's hardware and software, or are there new technologies coming down the pike that are going to change the way we store and retrieve data? Ruettgers: EMC has continued to invest in looking for new technologies, but frankly the technology won't change dramatically, at least for the next five years. You'll have this continual improvement as we've seen over the last ten years -- being able to store more information and making it available faster to people.