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To: Nine_USA who wrote (12586)11/20/1997 11:26:00 AM
From: Bradley W. Price  Respond to of 29386
 
Friday, November 14, 1997, 10:30 a.m. ET. From Internet Week:

CA, Legato Set Fibre
Support

By CHUCK MOOZAKIS

The advent of Fibre Channel won't mean a
thing to system administrators if they can't
manage their newly configured storage area
networks.

SAN describes networking technology that
supports the attachment of storage devices
linked by connectivity technologies such as
SCSI, Fibre Channel and serial storage
architecture. With a SAN, storage is
decoupled from the server.

This week, two vendors announced plans to
support Fibre Channel through their respective
storage management applications. The
suppliers--Computer Associates International
and Legato Systems--said their fibre modules
would be available early next year.

CA's fibre support will initially revolve around
Compaq's forthcoming line of Fibre Channel
products. The fibre options--which will hook
into CA's ARCserve 6.5 management
application--will be the first products resulting
from the Enterprise Storage Management
Alliance.

T.M. Ravi, CA's vice president of marketing,
said the deployment of storage area networks
and other storage designs tied together by
fibre pose particular challenges to IT
administrators and vendors alike.

Part of the task facing CA and other st