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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (9726)	1/4/2002 2:20:55 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Respond to of 10934

>> I'd like to hear some new news about the company, too (as opposed to the stock or market). Our thread techies are either gone or in read-only mode. Good luck in getting them back. You might find the odd tidbit here: Subject 17781 uf

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (9726)	1/4/2002 7:52:39 AM
From: riposte	Respond to of 10934

Sun ready for storage Evidence of increased competition in the storage arena. *Sun ready for storage* Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a comprehensive suite of standards-based storage-management software in January 2002, as well as a dedicated storage-management appliance later in the year, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. Sun's Integrated Storage Management suite will include existing Sun software products as well as new technology addressing availability, utilization, performance, and storage-resource management, according to sources. The yet-to-be-named Sun storage appliance should be capable of managing mixed-vendor storage environments from an in-line position within a network's data path, instead of outside the data path in a storage server or application server, sources said. Engineered to optimize upcoming, high-speed IP standards such as iSCSI, the appliance will reside on a company's Ethernet network, allowing administrators to appropriate storage resources faster than traditional "backroom" servers, while controlling multivendor products through the common language of the Internet, according to sources. Sun officials could not comment on unannounced products, but company executives such as Mark Canepa, executive vice president of storage products at Sun, in Burlington, Mass., have been vocal about Sun's belief that a dedicated storage-management appliance is where the software brains of a distributed SAN (storage area network) should reside. The Sun appliance will be the hardware extension of a comprehensive suite of standards-based storage-management software set to be released in January 2002, according to sources at Sun. But Sun's storage appliance may be only part of the overall storage-management puzzle, said Tony Prigmore, an analyst at the Enterprise Storage Group, in Milford, Mass. "Our view is there will be components of the storage-management software that will sit in the subsystem, another component in the servers themselves, and another part in the cloud -- a switch or a director," Prigmore said. Sun's Integrated Storage Management software suite, set to ship in January 2002, will include existing Sun software products as well as new technology addressing availability, utilization, performance, and storage-resource management, according to sources. Designed to open-industry standards, Sun's Integrated Storage Management products will rival EMC's AutoIS storage-management tools by allowing users to manage third-party storage hardware. The product will also enable users to manage other vendors' storage software. URL: infoworld.com