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To: KJ. Moy who wrote (19103)	11/2/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Jeff R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

Yes, Netbackup is a network based backup solution similar to Legato's Networker. Legato has more OEM bundling deals (ie. Sun), I am not sure if Netbackup has any such deals. Veritas is positioning itself to be big in the SAN arena. Key products such as Netbackup and Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) are being build with SANs in mind. VCS allows failover between up to 32 nodes sharing storage in a SAN. They are also working on some standard low level protocols that will control the SAN. They are much more than just a "file system" vendor that someone wrote earlier. One of the next steps for the SAN world it to get directly attached tape drives on fibre. Currently the only solution is to bridge from fibre to SCSI with a Crossroads or similar bridge. This will allow for a tremendous decrease in backup times once the technology is there, thus driving a move into SANs bigtime for backup purposes! Other key technologies to keep an eye on: Zoning. Both Brocade and Ancor now support zoning in their switches. Zoning allows "sub-netting" of the SAN. This makes only those hosts who "need" to see certain storage devices be able to access them. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the switch vendors are the ones developing this technology themselves (not part of the FC-AL standards) and hence, switch to switch compatability between vendors is sure to be a problem (currently). HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) are worth mentioning. Sun Microsystems has yet to announce an HBA that is "fabric aware". Their current FC-AL solution is only point-to-point. Jaycor is picking up the slack and providing a Sun HBA that is fabric aware. Many will shy away from a Jaycor solution since it is 3rd party. Once (if) Sun comes out with their HBA, this should get the SAN arena humming in the Sun UNIX world, a key market as Sun is currently the #1 Unix vendor. (# of shipments) Just some ramblings....