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To: DownSouth who wrote (5841)	1/18/2001 11:18:47 AM
From: stock_bull69	Respond to of 10934

Server Hardware/Appliance (OPENX) : Merrill Lynch comments on the group after interviewing 30 people in 20 companies; says storage demand remains solid and non-discretionary; reports that Brocade (BRCD 100 5/8) continues to enjoy momentum behind SAN deployment and nearly every contact mentioned BRCD as the leader; EMC (EMC 73 3/8) remains strong as data indicates that spending remains healthy; NTAP (NTAP 64 3/4) received solid reviews, sees EMC emerging as a player in NAS, but says NTAP won't miss a beat; Hewlett-Packard (HWP 31 11/16) continues to suffer from serious problems in the channel; IBM (IBM 97 5/16) is still constrained with CPU's for the RS/6000 (iServer) line but shipment growth has markedly improved. Briefing.com is the leading Internet provider of live market analysis for U.S. Stock, U.S. Bond, and world FX market participants.

To: DownSouth who wrote (5841)	1/18/2001 2:37:52 PM
From: riposte	Respond to of 10934

Dissing DAS The word's starting to get out... Steve Dissing DAS Author: alan earls Date: 17 Jan 2001 Tips Summary SAN/NAS has been nibbling away at traditional direct-attached storage (DAS) for years. But no matter how big the nibbles, there were few questioning the long-term viability of DAS for storage-intensive applications like supporting a database server. After all, anything but DAS was bound to be too slow. What's more database engines didn't even communicate with logical blocks, just raw records. Now, though, according to Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Storage Group, Milford, Mass., some hardy souls are ignoring the advice of traditional database server vendors. His views -- outlined in the January 2001 Enterprise Storage Group Business Brief -- are that "many user environments now require the flexibility and availability associated with an external NAS box." According to ESG, top NAS vendor Network Appliance is now shipping up to 20% of its filers in support of database engines. What's the benefit? Duplessie argues that going the NAS route simply provides more flexibility -- critical in today's business environment. So, if you suddenly find that your database needs to handle a spike in capacity -- such as, greater than five times its regular capacity -- DAS just isn't going to deliver. Duplessie says the only additional effort required for running a database engine from a NetApp box is to build a separate, high-speed subnet for the filer-database connection. ESG goes so far as to term the choice a "no-brainer" and concludes that the challenge is to "try to find the reason not to move the data to the network." About the author: Alan Earls is a freelance writer in Franklin, Mass. URL: searchstorage.techtarget.com