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To: DownSouth who wrote (2149)	1/20/2000 8:59:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Another white paper on SAN can be found at auspex.com

To: DownSouth who wrote (2149)	1/25/2000 2:21:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

hey, i thought these guys got bought out by Sybase? <vbg> btw, thanks for the frank feedback, DS. still learning ... ----- Network Appliance Delivers First Network-attached Storage Solution for Informix Database Environments January 25, 2000 11:58 AM SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000--NetApp extends solutions to deliver simple, always available appliance architecture to Informix database customers Network Appliance, Inc. (NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and management solutions, today announced that Informix Corporation (IFMX), has certified NetApp(R) data management appliances, also known as `filers' for deployment in Informix(R) database environments. The two companies worked together to test and develop technology that can address the increasing workloads of Internet, data warehousing and decision support environments which demand immediate access to record amounts of information. With this announcement customers using Informix and NetApp solutions can fully optimize their database environments - which are required to be online 24-hours per day, need simple backup solutions and need to scale without downtime. "To meet our customers' information access requirements, BancTec needs fast, scalable and reliable storage solutions," said Kevin Roper, general manager, BancTec North American Systems. BancTec, a Dallas, Texas-based systems integration and services company, provides image-based financial transaction processing systems for many of the world's highest volume processors, including credit card companies, insurers, banks, and government agencies. "Many of our transaction processing and archival systems use large-scale Informix databases for data processing and retention. With the network-attached NetApp filers, we can easily scale our storage environment to address our customers' changing business requirements." Optimized for use as network access and retrieval, NetApp filers provide industry leading performance, reliability and ease of management for UNIX(R) and Windows NT(R) environments. Unlike raw I/O storage systems, which are difficult to expand after configuration, NetApp filers operate as single file systems that can be easily grown simply by adding new disk drives to the system. Unique NetApp data management solution features that Informix users can now benefit from include: -- Snapshot(TM) technology that maintains multiple backups online to ensure consistent images of databases and provide read-only copies of databases for backup, queries, decision support and report generation. All this is accomplished without expensive disk mirroring or performance degradation. -- SnapMirror(TM) software provides remote mirroring of data for quick disaster recovery, offline backup and data sharing. -- SnapRestore(TM) software allows any system to revert back to a specified Snapshot for instant recovery. Recovery of multi-terabyte-sized databases can now be done in minutes rather than hours without ever going to tape. "E-commerce and online business-to-business efforts are changing the Web workload, placing greater demands on databases and supporting infrastructures," said Steve Weick, senior vice president and group executive, i.Foundation business group of Informix. "Our tests showed advantages in scalability and availability for NetApp in Informix powered databases and applications on the Web." "The data storage needs of Informix deployments in an Internet environment is a natural fit for NetApp solutions," said Dan Warmenhoven, Network Appliance President and CEO. "NetApp is a leading provider of data management solutions for ISPs, web sites and E-commerce companies on the Internet today. Together, the NetApp and Informix solutions allow customers to build scalable Web/i.Economy solutions much quicker and easier than ever before."