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To: Andreas who wrote (78264)	2/15/2000 11:54:00 AM
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OT? IBM storage server hits speed bump By Sonia R. Lelii, PC Week Online February 14, 2000 12:00 AM ET IBM's prized storage server, known as Shark, is being weighed down by glitches that can degrade performance. Specifically, Shark, officially called the Enterprise Storage Server, suffers from a subpar PCI interface that is causing serious bottle necks and other glitches, according to customers and analysts. The problems are not only a blow to customers but also a black eye to Big Blue itself, which touted Shark as its "EMC killer" disk array when it debuted last July. For all intents and purposes, Shark was to be the IBM machine to help the company recapture lost market share from chief rival EMC Corp. IBM has sold about 1,600 Shark machines to date. Shark is designed to scale up to 11.2 terabytes, compared with EMC's Symmetrix, which scales to 9.2 terabytes. But some early Shark customers say they're not close to approaching that type of storage.