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To: Lhn5 who wrote (19812)	12/16/1998 8:55:00 PM
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Whats the highlighted part mean for ANCR? More Vendors Joining The SAN Plan By CHUCK MOOZAKIS The number of storage and server companies jumping into the SAN pile will grow by three next week as Silicon Graphics Inc., Xiotech Corp. and Artecon Corp. will each roll out products and services tailored to the growing storage area networking (SAN) marketplace. SGI's aim is to leverage its experience managing large, mission-critical digital assets in the entertainment and scientific communities and port that background to the enterprise, said Anne Vincenti-Lambert, director of storage and networking marketing for SGI. A key component of SGI's SAN strategy is the forthcoming release of Failsafe 2.0, which will offer failover capabilities for as many as eight separate servers hooked into a RAID array. Along with that app will come storage management and file sharing apps, as well as Fibre switches, hubs and host bus adapters. SGI will also tap its 2,000-person service and support organization to support the installation of SANs in customer premises. The products initially will come from third-party vendors; eventually SGI will manufacture its own line of Fibre devices, Vincenti-Lambert said. The apps and products--supporting both Irix and NT--will begin rolling out early next year and continue throughout 1999 and early 2000. Additional platform support will follow in late 2000. Dataquest analyst Tom Lahive said SGI may be able to carve an immediate niche in the hotly competitive SAN market. "SGI's been known for their experience dealing with media servers, and within that space there are three things applicable to SAN management: file sharing, high throughput and storage management. What SGI can do is tightly integrate that server element into a SAN; once they do that; it's more than just a storage architecture; it's one that revolutionizes it because of the file sharing capabilities." Xiotech, meanwhile, is pitching what it is calling "SAN in a box" by adding eight-way clustering and a built-in Fibre Channel switch to its high-performance Magnitude arrays. A new backup app, RediCopy, will enable the arrays to back up data at Fibre Channel speeds of up to 100 megabytes per second without disrupting normal network traffic, according to Philip Soran, Xiotech president. The app allows a source drive to be copied to another drive even as the source drive remains online and accessible, Soran said. It's priced at $16,000 for an eight-server configuration. Artecon is wrapping its SAN efforts around its LynxArray 500, which it is dubbing "SAN in a can." The array, for either Sun or NT deployments, features Artecon's Lun-X software, which permits the assignment of specific RAID sets to each server, thus supporting multiple operating systems. The array is shipping now and is priced from $30,000.