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To: Lynn who wrote (3405)	12/19/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

SANs highlighted and EMC namedropped in a couple of internetweek pieces. this one's titled "Top Stories Of The Year: 1998." SANs listed as no. 10, but i didn't gather they were really in any particular order (e.g., novell was no. 8). InternetWeek December 21, 1998, Issue: 746 Top Stories Of The Year: 1998 10. SANs Give Storage Its Own Pipes The SAN bandwagon is loaded up and ready to go. IT managers now have the pieces they need to deploy storage area networks in their operations. Indeed, more than two-thirds of data administrators at large companies say they are considering installing storage area networks (SANs) within the next 12 months, according to Forrester Research data. SANs are winning attention because they eliminate the I/O bottleneck created by traditional server-attached storage. Instead, data from multiple servers is funneled directly to a separate network of storage devices via high-speed Fibre Channel pipes. That's an attractive proposition to data-inundated IT managers-particularly those under the gun to make information more accessible to users. Vendors, meanwhile, believe SANs will be an attractive addition to their bottom line. To that end, they trotted out a pile of SAN-related strategies throughout the year, capped by the November announcement by networking vendor 3Com that it would venture into the storage marketplace with a SAN initiative of its own. For the most part, vendors went beyond the hardware and software necessary to oversee complex SAN designs. Instead, suppliers attempted to ease IT managers' storage nightmares by certifying the interoperability of applications and hardware comprising their SAN product lines, thus providing a guaranteed "SAN in a can." Interoperability was backed up by sales, service and support. Companies such as Compaq, EMC Corp. and StorageTek Corp., among others, beefed up and consolidated their service networks using SANs as a means to offer customized support plans. At the same time, network management vendors such as Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard and Tivoli Systems Inc. laid the groundwork to dovetail their policy- and event-fueled management applications with SAN management packages. -Chuck Moozakis techweb.com