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To: princesedi who wrote (27250)	6/6/2000 3:07:00 PM
From: richroni	Respond to of 29386

biz.yahoo.com ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000-- Storage Area Networks and Related Technologies Address Scalability Today, Evolving Switches with Controllers Inside to Solve Scalability in the Future Speaking at a GartnerGroup storage conference being held here this week, data networking expert Hubert Yoshida, vice president of data network solutions at Hitachi Data Systems, today described for the first time a new network paradigm for e-commerce. Citing parallels between the historical growth of the telecom industry and the emerging e-commerce industry, Yoshida outlined key issues, including the need for rapid growth management (scalability) and the provision of fast, continuous service for customers, and how switches enable the connectivity for both telephony and e-commerce. To address bottlenecks in scalability and speed posed by current storage architectures, Yoshida proposed a new data storage paradigm in which data is passed through switching networks internal to storage subsystems, as well as through externally attached switching fabrics such as storage area networks (SANs). The configuration he outlined outperforms traditional models by a wide margin. ``Enterprise business solutions require the optimum combination of networking technologies, including SANs, LANs and WANs,'' said Yoshida. ``SANs are only part of a larger network paradigm Hitachi Data Systems calls the Freedom Data Network. This combines the benefits of server and storage networks and provides six to 10 times the performance of traditional Internet protocol LAN configurations.'' ``With the growing flood of data arriving at subsystem controllers, the shared-bus architecture used in most current storage subsystems will inevitably become a performance bottleneck. A strategic way to meet the continuing demand for scalability is to deploy a network of internal switches that direct the data through many possible paths on its way from the controller to the disk drives,'' said Yoshida. As very large-capacity disk drives come to market for future generations of storage subsystems, these disk drives themselves may become bottlenecks to system performance. ``Adopting dual-ported Fibre Channel interface technology is the way to get faster back-end performance out of systems using the large disk drives,'' he said. Yoshida also commented on the Intel-led CPU-to-network connection standards initiative, Infiniband. Infiniband standards, which are now being defined, bring the concept of switching into the processors to replace the shared peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus. Products reflecting these standards will not be available for several years. ``The direction is clearly toward switching for scalability,'' said Yoshida, ``with switching for scalability being driven down from networks, to SANs, to internal controllers and processors. Do you care to guess who will be the first to provide a switched storage controller?'' Yoshida closed by stating that no matter who eventually develops the switched storage controller, Hitachi Data Systems Freedom Data Networks and Freedom Storage Products already lead the market in meeting the scalability and availability needs of today's large data networks that support e-commerce. Hitachi Data Systems will introduce its latest high availability storage product in late Q2 2000. About Hitachi Data Systems Committed to helping customers exploit the value of information technology for success in the Internet economy, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT - news), is a leading provider of business solutions for the world's most information-intensive corporations. For further information on Hitachi Data Systems, access www.hds.com. About Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1998 (ended March 31, 1999) consolidated sales of 7,977 billion yen ($65.9 billion(1)). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at hitachi.co.jp. (1) At an exchange rate of 121 yen to the dollar. Note to Editors: Hitachi Data Systems is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd. Built for Fast Times is a trademark of Hitachi America, Ltd.

To: princesedi who wrote (27250)	6/6/2000 10:57:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Oh, JavaOne has started..... JavaOne attendees decry Sun's focus on profits By Lee Copeland 06/06/2000 SAN FRANCISCO ? Developers at Sun Microsystems Inc.'s JavaOne conference here today lauded announcements of improved support for wireless devices and Macintosh-based applications within the Java programming language. But some decried what they said was too much focus on the business aspects of working with Java. Scott G. McNealy, Sun's CEO and chairman, kicked off the opening session of JavaOne by touting the big bucks that developers can rake in from Java projects. With the subtlety of a neon sign, one slide in McNealy's presentation boasted: "Java=Fortune." After the keynote, some developers complained that McNealy and other Sun officials put too much emphasis on the potential monetary benefits of Java. "Talking about how much money could be made was overstepping a bit," said Cliff Briscoe, chief technology officer at Edge Technologies Inc. in Laurel, Md. "The ubiquity of Java is not (there) because people saw it as a way of making money. People viewed it as shareware/freeware that can run anywhere. This is not a business development community." Java developer Zachary Forsyth, a senior software engineer at Retek Inc. in Minneapolis, said Sun's focus on profits was a cause for concern. "Java should be a standard and not a brand, hopefully controlled by a community and not by a company," Forsyth said. Developers voiced more optimism about the pledge for better Java support from surprise guest speaker Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.'s CEO. Jobs pledged that Apple would offer Sun's Java 2 Standard Edition with the next version of the Macintosh operating system, Mac OS X, when it ships later this year. Java support for the Macintosh operating system has lagged behind Sun's development of the technology, doubling the development chores for information technology organizations that have been forced to develop two different sets of applications for PCs and Macintosh machines. "Java is all we're doing, and its a hassle to do two versions of things," said Mitch Hendrickson, a senior engineer at Telestream Inc. in Grass Valley, Calif. "The current Java for the Mac is a version back." "The Mac has not been so good on Java," agreed Bjorn Walter, a systems analyst at Davitis Noor AB in Stockholm. "It's nice that they are finally going to catch up." In another hot point in the keynote, Scott McNealy announced the release of J2ME, short for Java 2 Micro Edition. A very small version of Java, Sun's J2ME can be embedded in wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers, McNealy said.