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To: David A. Lethe who wrote (3193)	4/27/2001 7:54:13 AM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

Thanks for the link. Some people will be trying to figure how the storage is going from HIT results.... . In computer operations, storage system sales were higher, making up for a sharp decline in overseas sales of mainframe computers. In Japan, good growth was also registered by the software, systems integration and services operations of Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd. The overall result was an increase of 10% in segment sales, to 3,455,578 million yen (US$27,868 million). QLGC seems to be working on a very sound stategy for the changing future?.... QLogic aims to ease SAN integration By Sonia R. Lelii, eWEEK April 20, 2001 3:40 PM ET QLogic Corp. is looking to simplify SAN integration with its new SANblade platform. The Eden Prairie, Minn., company wants to take the headache out of integrating the multitude of SAN components -- such as SCSI and Fibre Channel host bus adapters and InfiniBand I/O modules -- with a platform that includes a common hardware interface and storage management technology for board-level products. This means that original equipment manufacturers such as Dell Computer Corp. or Compaq Computer Corp. will have an easier time integrating components into larger storage systems. "Everybody wants to minimize the amount of time and money needed to support these devices, and having a common API is a great way to do it," said Frank Berry, QLogic's vice president of marketing. The platform includes an array of board-level products such as Fibre Channel host bus adapters, SCSI adapters and network interface cards (and, in the future, InfiniBand I/O modules and iSCSI adapters). Moreover, QLogic is tying all of its blade-level products into the common QLogic Management Suite, something IT managers have been clamoring for since iSCSI and InfiniBand technologies began to hit the market. "That really was the straw that broke the camel's back," said Berry. "Everybody said, 'Okay, we need to centralize the management of these products. We really do not want so many management tools for these products. We have to centralize or this means we're going to have to train every IT person on each one. That is impossible.'" QLogic also is developing a family of switch products, expected to be available at the end of the year, that are designed as boards instead of external boxes. "We've developed a whole level of card-size switch products," Berry said, "so you don't have to buy an external subsystem for switches. The switch blades are also included in this management software. All of the SAN storage management suppliers are interested in the API so they don't have to write extra code."