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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1792)	2/6/2000 1:04:00 AM
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IBM to pack more storage options By Reuters February 2, 2000 8:27 AM PT URL: zdnet.com NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. said on Wednesday it will offer new disk storage systems to other computer makers to use in their products. "This is the first time IBM has sold complete disk storage systems, not just components, through the OEM (original equipment manufacturers) channel in a significant way," said Greg Enriquez, vice president, IBM OEM Storage Systems. The new products are the first use of technology from data storage technology developer Mylex Corp., which IBM acquired in September. The new line of Windows NT and UNIX storage server systems and network attached storage are part of an effort to compete in the fast-growing market of providing disk storage systems to computer makers. That market, boosted by explosive growth of computer networks and the Internet, is currently valued at $1.2 billion, according to International Data Corp. The total storage market under all operating systems is seen as growing to $47 billion by 2003. "The storage market continues to grow, and many of the vendors cannot make the same investments into research and development that IBM can," said Janet Waxman of IDC. "And IBM also OEMs these products to themselves." The first product is the IBM ProFibre Storage Array, a high performance storage system that attaches to a server running the Windows NT or UNIX operating systems. It is designed to handle storage-intensive tasks such as electronic commerce, video editing and data warehousing. The system, which is made up of IBM hard disk drives, Mylex redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID) controllers, and an IBM enclosure is scalable from 9 gigabytes to 2.8 terabytes, or enough to store the contents of a large library. IBM said it will be offering network attached storage later in the first half of this year. Current leaders in the market to provide disk data storage systems to computer makers include EMC Corp.'s Data General/Clarion, Storage Technology Corp. and LSI Logic Corp. "As Clarion exits and moves away from the OEM business, a lot of it is going to LSI Logic and IBM wants to capture that business," said John MacArthur, storage analyst at International Data Corp.