To: J Fieb who wrote (2460 ) 11/22/2000 10:20:09 PM From: J Fieb Read Replies (1) | Respond to Many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!Storage over IP and Infiniband, since these systems will need to be backward compatible with Fibre Channel products and will require common management tools. I’ve never seen so much interest. In the past, SNIA was sometimes viewed as being too slow in promoting standards and concrete results. I think that view has changed as member companies have invested more talent and resources into SNIA, and as SNIA-sponsored efforts have shown significant successes. The plain fact is, no matter what the vehicle, the standardization track takes time. The more talent applied, the less time it takes. So I would just encourage fellow vendors and customers to focus on working within SNIA for storage network issues and to help our collective effortas well as an Inifiniband working group to serve as a liaison between the SNIA and the Infiniband Trade Association. The opening of the technology center in Colorado Springs. That center itself will be home to a range of activity like testing suites, vendor demos, suite integration, workgroups and education. We are planning heavy initiatives in Asia and Europe aimed at consolidating and coordinating the storage networking efforts in a similar vein as the efforts here in the U.S. The European effort will really be launched in the first quarter of 2001 and will see similar activities in terms of workgroups. We have some key people in place now in Europe taking steps toward that end.
