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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (95608)	3/2/2002 11:40:37 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

El: very nice find, and mildly amusing when one reflects upon the indices espoused by JJ, Jim Seymore (?) et. al. over the years of opinions by Street.Com opinions of Compaq.

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (95608)	3/2/2002 2:40:53 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

bubblevision.tv Entertaining with quotes from CJ and yours truly.

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (95608)	3/3/2002 8:21:59 AM
From: hlpinout	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Thanks El, just burst my bubble! -- Compaq bolsters storage line By ASHLEE VANCE, IDG NEWS SERVICE (February 27, 2002) Compaq Computer Corp. released a host of new networked storage products Tuesday, as the company completed another phase of its revamped storage strategy. ADVERTISEMENT Compaq updated its storage line with everything from new storage cabinets to switches and software. The slew of products could bolster Compaq's position in the storage market as it attempts to capitalize on the trend toward storage-area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) architectures. Both SAN and NAS technologies give companies more management options for shuffling data among servers, storage systems and users. Companies have typically made direct attachments between servers and storage systems but are beginning to rely on switching systems and IP to funnel information among hardware devices. The releases fill out another part of Compaq's Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA), which was first released in 1998 and extended to ENSA-2 last year. Compaq didn't release pricing on the new products and was unavailable for comment. The new products announced are as follows: The StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16 is designed to transfer data at up to 2G bit/sec. over Fibre Channel networks. The switch has better transfer speeds than its predecessor and can be installed in pairs to create a backbone for linking SAN systems. A pair of Enterprise Virtual Array Expansion Cabinets have been added to allow customers to increase their disk capacity by cabling the "sidecar" cabinets to existing arrays, according to a statement. Compaq also updated its Array Controller Software by adding several patches to existing products. In addition, Compaq released Version 1.02 of its SANworks Virtual Controller Software for managing the HSV110 Array Controller. The company released its FC2257c Fibre Channel host bus adapter for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system. The MSL5052SL Tape Library is also available as a new tape storage product. The unit comes with hot plug drives, redundant power supplies and five cPCI I/O slots. Compaq also launched the AIT 100GB tape drive for data archiving. The product can consistently transfer data at 12M bit/sec., making it possible to back up large amounts of information, the company said in the statement. A new SDLT 110/220GB maintenance kit comes with various tools for reducing system downtime and works with Compaq's existing tape products.