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To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (3247)	5/11/2000 10:55:00 AM
From: Crystal ball	Respond to of 10934

LOOK....THE RALLY HAS BEGUN....I AM IN NOW. I am, Truly your$, -Crystal Ball

To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (3247)	5/11/2000 12:22:00 PM
From: mtnlady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Good article on what's happening in the industry and the convergence of NAS and SAN. wallstreetcity.com

To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (3247)	5/12/2000 9:46:00 PM
From: Jack Hartmann	Respond to of 10934

Missed this PR from a couple days back Network Appliance F760 Filer Wins Second Consecutive Best Product Award from Network Computing Magazine; Sixth Annual `Well-Connected Awards' Honor Industry's Best 50 Products Wednesday, May 10, 2000 02:28 PM Mail this article to a friend NetWorld Interop 2000 SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2000--Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP, news, msgs), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, today announced that Network Computing magazine -- for the second straight year -- has named the NetApp(R) F760 filer the best Network Attached Storage system in the Servers and Peripherals category. The award was presented to Network Appliance as part of Network Computing's 2000 Well-Connected Awards, announced this week at Networld + Interop in Las Vegas. "Network Appliance has consistently listened to its customers and delivered the performance, reliability, and scalability they have demanded," said Mark Santora, vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "Our customer focus and technical excellence have been validated by a long list of Global 2000 customers and, in turn, a market-leading position in data access and storage." "To receive the Network Computing Well-Connected award -- particularly for the second straight year affirms our view that Network Appliance products are the most intelligent choice for real-world enterprise data management solutions, and we are honored by the editors' decision." "The Well-Connected Awards are significantly different from other IT publications' awards," said Fritz Nelson, publisher of CMP's Network Computing. "Our editors worked at length to research and test the best offerings in the enterprise arena." According to Nelson, the products singled out in the Network Computing Well-Connected Awards are unique because "they are not a measure of popularity -- they are quality offerings tested over a networked enterprise firsthand by editors themselves. So we know that the NetApp F760 filer is truly an innovative solution." The F760 filer is NetApp's most powerful enterprise storage solution, providing multi-terabyte capacity. NetApp filers consolidate storage for Windows(R) and UNIX(R) systems, reducing storage costs and providing access to multi-terabyte enterprise data. By eliminating the need for specialized set-up and administration, customers deploying NetApp filers can experience significant reduction in administration and support costs. More information on NetApp filers can be found at netapp.com. *************** Wonder where the magazine online version is. Jack

To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (3247)	5/20/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Respond to of 10934

jack: here's a bit more on the OSN initiative. fwiw, those "five other companies" are Amdahl, Cisco, Foundry Networks, Legato[e], and Veritas. ----- The ethernet option Initiative eyes blueprint for Gigabit-based storage network architecture By Sonia R. Lelii, eWEEK May 15, 2000 8:42 AM ET zdnet.com Network Appliance Inc. has taken off the gloves in its fight to deploy pooled storage over Gigabit Ethernet connections. At NetWorld+Interop here last week, the Sunnyvale, Calif., storage appliance manufacturer teamed with Quantum ATL Products Inc. and five other companies to define standards for devices that would make Gigabit Ethernet the technology of choice when deploying NAS (network-attached storage). The idea behind the Open Storage Networking, or OSN, initiative is to deliver a storage network architecture that comprises servers, storage appliances, ATLs (automated tape libraries) and network switching equipment that can be deployed easily in customers' network infrastructures. OSN members are looking to define a technology architecture and road map centered on Gigabit Ethernet and ultimately offer certified hardware and software configurations. A key technology in this architecture is NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol), which lets large packets of data be transported without going through the server. For backing up storage over the network, the NDMP-compliant components are placed in NAS devices and in other network areas, such as the tape library. NAS filers traditionally have connected to corporate networks via SCSI or Fibre Channel adapters. But hooking such devices into a Gigabit Ethernet network would provide a combination of high performance and lower cost that neither SCSI nor Fibre Channel can match, said OSN members. Some IT managers agree. "Direct-attached SCSI does not cut it. We already found out it does not work," said Jeff Kruger, an IT manager at San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., which uses 30 NAI [sic] filers. "We already know and trust TCP/IP and NDMP on Gigabit [Ethernet]. All we have to do is pop a card into the ATL tape library. This is a significantly less drastic infrastructure change." Installing a Fibre Channel infrastructure would be costly. At the same time, the average cost per port for both Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet is declining, according to International Data Corp., a market researcher in Framingham, Mass. Atlanta-based startup Medizeus Inc. is planning to put its storage traffic on Gigabit Ethernet leased from a co-location service provider rather than build out a Fibre Channel network. "It's the difference between paying $5,000 a month on custom cabling vs. using standard Cat 5 cabling that [a co-location] already has in place," said Brian Niemeyer, Medizeus' manager of software development.