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To: Robert who wrote (40902)	1/27/2001 12:11:14 AM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hi Robert - Do you know the reason for the big drop in market share by SUNW in SAN storage? "...SAN - Storage Area Networks 1999 2000 1. EMC 18.8% 30.9% 2. Sun 26.3% 13.6% 3. Compaq 18.7% 16.1% ..." Was SUNW just late in developing new upgraded product(s)? It appears that the competition (specifically EMC) is really doing quite well in this market. Do you know if SUNW is developing any new SAN storage products that will compete with EMC? I recall something recently but do not know if it was targeted at the SANs market. EKS P.S. Here is an earlier posting I made that leads me to believe SUNW has a "new" product ready to ship to address EMC's solutions. I do not know if it isa SAN's solution or not. "... Information Weekly Magazine, (Jan 8 01 edition) has an article entitled. "Sun Aims To Challenge EMC With New Storage Push". The article states that this week Sun will unveil an enhanced version of its modular StorEdge T3 storage system, which was introduced last summer. The system will store, move, and manage data on servers running HP_UX, IBM's AIX and Microsofts NT. It is a major departure for Sun which has not supported many operating systems other than solaris, (it's version of UNIX). Devon Energy Corp Oklahoma City OK is using Suns System and claims "when we add T3 brick, we double the controllers, the bandwidth and the performance. The StorEdge T3 is available now; a 5.2 terabyte configuration is priced at $600,000. Devon Energies Senior Network Engr. claims that he picked Sun because EMC products were slower and four times more expensive. Sun's modular approach will allow companies to start with 163 Gbytes on a T3 array and add more as needed. Customers will end up with a single system image across the arrays, which makes the system easy to adminster and manage...."