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To: John Pitera who wrote (2636)	12/18/2001 1:57:05 PM
From: Logain Ablar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2850

John: Speculative but its looking to have a power spike today. From my stand point still need 15 cents for break even but the bottom may have just been set. November 30, 2001 Compaq Rolls Out New SAN Product By Evan Koblentz Compaq Computer Corp. today announced a new entry-level SAN (storage-area network) offering, and will eliminate its current entry-level offering, the RA4100. The StorageWorks Modular SAN Array, which is shipping immediately, uses 42 drives of 72 GB each and can scale to about 3 terabytes, said Roger Archibald, vice president and general manager of Compaq's Enterprise Storage Group, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Pricing starts at between $30,000 and $40,000, he said. They main new feature is the ability to swap drives from a user's existing storage array and install them into a SAN Array, Archibald said. The software will auto-discover the drives and reconstruct the array. Compaq will also offer an optional five-port Fibre Channel switch, Archibald said. That's supplied by Gadzoox Networks Inc., of San Jose, Calif., but will be branded as a Compaq component. The systems will also support Compaq's SecurePath redundancy and failover products, and its Virtual Replicator, which does host-based data virtualization. "There is still a lot left to do," Archibald said. The system currently supports Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., and Compaq's own operating systems; by early next year it will also support Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP-UX. But Archibald added that it's not going to be part of Compaq's technology-sharing agreement with rival EMC Corp., announced earlier this year. In that deal, Compaq and EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., agreed to share technology that would let them each make the others' hardware manageable through their own software consoles.