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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1084)	2/19/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

Maybe soon we'll get to see more of IBMs plans.....maybe all of IBMs divisions will be on the same page? IBM Embraces Storage-Area Networks (02/19/99, 11:42 a.m. ET) By Eileen Colkin and Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek After years of remaining loyal to Serial Storage Architecture interconnect technology, IBM on Wednesday fully embraced SANs based on Fibre Channel with the release of several products under its newly developed SAN initiative. The products and initiative are part of IBM's plan to help customers move toward SANs that, in addition to providing performance and distance benefits, will allow centralized management of heterogeneous hardware and software systems and sharing of information across storage systems regardless of vendor computing systems and software applications. IBM unveiled its SAN Data Gateway that connects SCSI and Ultra SCSI-attached disk and tape storage systems to select Unix and Windows NT servers with Fibre Channel interconnect. IBM's Fibre Channel RAID Storage Server is the company's first device with Fibre Channel drives inside designed for small clusters of the same Unix and NT servers. The storage system will offer capacity ranging from 18 gigabytes to 1 terabyte. The company also released Fibre Channel Storage Hubs with seven ports to support up to 100-megabyte-per-second data transmission between system servers and storage servers. On the software side, IBM upgraded its StorWatch centralized management tool, which lets network administrators monitor and dynamically reconfigure multiple RAID Storage systems from a single Win 95 or NT workstation, to now support Fibre Channel. According to IBM, the products are the first of several upcoming announcements that will accompany the company's SAN initiative. Under the initiative, the services, software, networking, and server divisions of IBM will be generating products that will help with the company's goal of creating a unified infrastructure using SANs. Currently, SANs suffer from a lack of management capabilities across heterogeneous systems.