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To: James Connolly who wrote (9911)	11/27/2001 2:15:24 PM
From: James Connolly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

Interesting piece on iSCSI and TCP/IP offload, one of the applications of TINA. Storage industry split over connections news.cnet.com Key to the technology is the ability to speed up IP--specifically, the TCP/IP processing that packages data to be sent on the network. EMC, the top maker of high-end storage systems, has said the arrival of special-purpose chips to handle TCP/IP will be the key moment when IP storage becomes workable. "One of the key technology challenges is to offload a lot of the IP processing from the server CPU," said A.G. Edwards analyst Shebly Seyrafi. "When that happens, it's a possibility over time that IP storage gradually scales up to the data center." Accelerator chips are key to IBM's avid boosting of iSCSI. "We expect by mid-next year there will be iSCSI implementations that are comparable in performance to 1gbps Fibre Channel," predicted Claude Barrera, director of technology strategy for IBM's Storage Systems Group. Regards JC.