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To: DownSouth who wrote (32404)	9/27/2000 5:08:33 PM
From: rich evans	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

DownSouth, Did you get a chance to read Benn's latest post on the Wind thread on Storage etc. Especially the following: Today’s Tornado for I2O 2.0 release is what I have been waiting for for months. Please try to understand how big this is. An off-loaded TCP/IP stack is what the data-swamped IT community needs. That the offload is both intelligent and based on the open I2O spec is awesome. This opens the door for a Lego Block approach to scaling servers through appliance-like add-ons. Imagine a Linux box with a multi-port, off-loaded NIC also housing I2O-based RAID (iRAID). This appliance could live life as a network storage beast capable of handling Gigabit LAN speeds extremely reliably, at a fraction of the cost of existing network storage solutions. It could be a screaming web server. Or, it could open up whole new categories of appliances. The device could intelligently store, compress, decompress, encrypt, perform intrusion detection, all on the fly without bothering the host Linux system – through vertical applications running on the I/O devices. It’s the peer-to-peer possibilities (in which any two I/O peripherals essentially can talk directly together without bothering the host CPU) that excites me as much as anything. This leads to my Lego Block analogy. For example, add an IXP 1200 network processor (which is I2O compliant) to the intelligent, multi-ported NIC and you end up with a $40,000 switch for peanuts. Message 14464358 Would be interested in what you think? Rich