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To: mepci who wrote (169918)	6/20/2002 4:25:04 PM
From: mepci	Respond to of 176387

Larry: Dell performance is negative last year as far as SE is concerned, which is what should really matter to shareholders- not hero-worshipping Michael.

To: mepci who wrote (169918)	6/21/2002 8:42:30 AM
From: Bob Frasca	Respond to of 176387

mepci: 2003 will see the emerging of storage over IP technology which costs 1/10th of SAN or even NAS. EMC software will only a partial solution as Blade operating Systems take over enterprise management. Some of that storage over IP stuff is available now but it doesn't really displace a SAN or NAS. You would use a "storage router" such as Cisco's new SN 5428. Here's some stuff from a Qlogic press release. In my view, this combines the best of both worlds as it allows you to leverage your existing network as well as enjoy the benefits of a fibre channel based Storage Area Network. Of course, bridging to NAS from IP is still an issue as far as I know. The Cisco SN 5428 offers two Gigabit Ethernet ports, for connectivity to standard TCP/IP networks, and eight 2-gigabit Fibre Channel fabric switch ports enabled by QLogic technology. These 2-gigabit ports are backward compatible with 1Gb Fibre Channel devices. Critical to successful operation in heterogeneous (multi-vendor) server environments, the Cisco SN 5428 is interoperable with Fibre Channel and iSCSI devices with industry-leading driver support from both QLogic and Cisco for Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and several flavors of Linux operating systems.