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To: Neil S who wrote (19859)	12/22/1998 8:08:00 AM
From: Neil S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Interesting article on SGI SAN approach. nwfusion.com NOTE: If you read the article the reference to Brocade [as i understand it] is a generic reference to switch makers as in "for example" or "such as" not a specific reference to Brocade as a supplier. The writer [Deni Conner] was gracious enough to clarify and expand on his remarks to me via e-mail. He went on to elaborate "In fact, the host bus adapter and switch will come from Prisa, the hub from Emulex, the RAID/JBOD from Ciprico, Clariion and EMC, tape from STK, and storage management from Legato and Veritas. I believe Ancor is also supplying a switch. " Neil ************* Excerpts: <<"SGI is the first server company that has been able to leverage its development in clustering and data-sharing capabilities, which they developed for servers, into the storage area network. They, unlike everyone else, have not divorced the server engineering from the SAN engineering," says Tom Lahive, senior analyst at Dataquest in Lowell, Mass. "They have a real live working solution now.">> <<This year, SGI will ship SAN products focusing on digital media installations and utilize that experience in the next year towards its IRIX and Windows NT-based enterprise servers and workstations. The SAN will comprise a host bus adapter, switch or hub, a RAID or just a bunch of disks (JBOD) system, tape storage, management software and services, starting at $56,000.>> <<In the second half of 2000, SGI will extend its SAN approach to Sun Solaris and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX servers, increasing their heterogeneous reach.>> <<SGI's SAN approach is to offer centralized storage and storage management, much like EMC Software, but on a wider range of networks. In addition, to increase its high-availability, SGI will offer LAN-free backup and enhanced FailSafe 2.0, an eight to thirty two-way cluster of storage devices.>>

To: Neil S who wrote (19859)	12/22/1998 8:19:00 AM
From: Neil S	Respond to of 29386

Storage Moves into the Networked World: nwfusion.com <<The increased demand for access to stored data and new storage concepts, such as network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs), threaten to turn storage access into the next big headache for the Network IS professional. "We're seeing more and more of our mid- to large-tier customers focusing on gaining control over the storage management operations across all platforms, from the mainframe to distributed platforms and often out to desktops and remote users," says Lisa Carlin, market director, enterprise storage management, InRange Technologies Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J.>>