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To: DownSouth who wrote (35777)	12/1/2000 10:49:28 AM
From: johndelvecchio	Respond to of 54805

Thanks DownSouth, I watched a great presentation by one of the founders yesterday from NTAP. I have a bunch of links now to look into DAFS. The presentation is very concise and talks about the future of storage. I had the pleasure of talking with NTAP's CEO for about 30 minutes a couple of months ago. The key take away from that discussion in my mind was that software is the secret sauce. That's why I became interested in the software angle here. Best, John

To: DownSouth who wrote (35777)	12/1/2000 6:46:38 PM
From: darryl25	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

DownSouth, Do you have any informative links on DAFS/VI? Who are the other backers of DAFS/VI other then NTAP? Are there NIC and HBA vendors supporting this? You mention that DAFS/VI will be able to communicate over 802.3, FC, and Infiniband. To accomplish transport over FC, NTAP will need a vendor like Emulex or Qlogic to implement the DAFS/VI interface on their FC HBA's. Infiniband being a ways out, some vendor will need to make Host Channel Adapters and Target Channel Adapters (Pieces of the Infiniband Arch.) with a DAFS/VI interface if transport on Infiniband is desired. Vendors will initially be focused on making Infiniband Switches, Chassis, and the other important pieces of the IB fabric, so support of DAFS/VI would be a bit farther away, depending on how successful it is over 802.3 networks. All these questions may be answered once I read more on DAFS, so if you can provide me with some links, please do. Darryl