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To: bob gauthier who wrote (4143)	2/7/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Respond to of 17183

a bit more on the FibreAlliance ... ----- Information Week February 08, 1999, Issue: 720 Section: Hardware Storage Interoperability -- Group's Aim: Devices That Work Together Martin J. Garvey EMC Corp. has formed an alliance with several storage vendors to promote interoperability among heterogeneous components on a storage area network. The FibreAlliance includes Hewlett-Packard's storage division, Fibre Channel hub and switch vendors Ancor Communications, Gadzoox Networks, and Vixel, and software publishers Legato Systems and Veritas Software. Charter members of FibreAlliance will work on creating software specifications that all the vendors will include in their products' management software to enable all their offerings to work together. As yet, there's no standard in place to insure that devices from diverse vendors will work together in SAN environments, and that's holding back widespread adoption of the hardware that connects devices at Fibre Channel speeds of 100 Mbytes per second and at distances of up to 10 kilometers. The FibreAlliance comes on the heels of a similar effort from Sun called StoreX. Some of the same vendors have pledged to support both initiatives. But the FibreAlliance partners plan to ship products by next quarter, while StoreX offerings aren't expected until the third quarter at the earliest. Don Swatik, EMC's VP of product management, says the FibreAlliance specs will be publicly available to any company once the group brings its proposal to standards boards such as the Storage Networking Industry Association. But some analysts say that it will still be a while before widespread interoperability occurs. Says Sean Derrington, a senior analyst with the Meta Group, "There will be the connectivity for wide-scale deployment within a standard storage environment, but heterogeneous server and storage is still at least a year out."