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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (25746)	1/22/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

From the article: (Infiniband)The architecture bypasses the underlying operating system and connects the CPU and memory directly to an I/O engine. <<CPU -INTEL, I/O Engine - Ancor!>> Any comments on this? Does this mean that someday the Pentium Chip will have an Ancor Infiniband Asic built into it?

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (25746)	1/23/2000 11:36:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Joe, Here are a few good excerpts from the article. Comments anyone....... while blocking mechanisms such as FibreChannel/SCSI are faster than NAS, they tend to lose metadata and inherently support less intelligence, such as metadata, which means users are likely to end up buying dedicated NAS file system or database servers in any case. NTAP sees an opportunity in SANS........ Warmenhoven has said that in reality the industry is "not about network NAS versus SANs, it's NAS plus SAN." NetApp is working with switch vendors to allow customers to reconfigure Fibre Channel networks on the fly to use its filer systems. Its plan is to connect its appliances and application servers to SAN back-ends and overlay them with a layer of functions or "glue" such as distributed lock management for maintaining data integrity which SAN vendors themselves are still in the process of integrating piece by piece with their storage The conclusion is there is room for everyone...... Nevertheless it's difficult to see how SAN and NAS storage equipment and software suppliers can go wrong, given e-business is still in its infancy. PS Anyone have the Thurs. WSJ to verify this post from the COM21 thread..... Message 12651178 Just want to know who wrote it and who made the quotes. Thanks in advance.