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To: Pigboy who wrote (1092)	2/23/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Pigboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Parts from the 'Reuters' PR tonight-- << Tuesday February 23, 8:16 pm Eastern Time Dell, with partners, expands data storage line-up By Eric Auchard NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news) on Tuesday introduced a new line of corporate data storage equipment designed to position the top-ranked direct supplier of personal computers for rapid growth in the emerging field. >> I liked this part from the same PR-- << Dell said it is the first major computer vendor -- rivals include IBM (NYSE:IBM - news), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news) and Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ - news) -- to offer a fibre channel switch to work on computer systems running Windows NT storage environments. >> and this part, again-- << The new product provides customers up to eight times the performance of most fibre channel hub products now sold for Storage Area Networks (SANs). >> Things have always been exciting in the SAN field so far, but it seems like we are entering the next level around now. At least, I hope so. cheers, pigboy

To: Pigboy who wrote (1092)	2/26/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Pigboy, Things are finally starting to roll for FC. Hopefully the best is yet to come...... February 22, 1999, Issue: 722 Section: Behind The News Needs Time To Catch On Fibre Channel is supposed to do for data storage what the T3 line did for data communications: Provide a large and strategic pipeline. It can be used to simultaneously transmit and receive data at 1 Gbps-five times faster than SCSI. It also can work between nodes that are up to 6 miles apart, vs. about 75 feet for SCSI. That necessitates the construction of storage area networks, allowing information to be shared among widely dispersed devices. So far, however, Fibre Channel has been slow to catch on. Less than half the sites surveyed employ the technology, and then not always in large quantities Storage Shift For IBM -- New Products Based On Fibre Channel Eillen Colkin with Martin J. Garvey After years of remaining loyal to SSA interconnect technology, IBM last week embraced storage area networks based on Fibre Channel, with the release of several products under its SAN initiative. The Fibre Channel RAID Storage Server is its first device to include Fibre Channel drives that can attach to small clusters of Unix or Windows NT servers if all servers in the cluster are the same. Capacity ranges from 18 Gbytes to 1 terabyte, and pricing ranges from 20 cents to 50 cents per Mbyte, depending on configuration. IBM also released its Fibre Channel Storage Hub system, with seven ports to support up to 100-Mbytes-per-second data transmission between system servers and storage servers. The company's new SAN Data Gateway connects SCSI- and Ultra SCSI-attached disk and tape storage systems to select Unix and NT servers that support the Fibre Channel interconnect. IBM wouldn't disclose pricing for the products. 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 Windows 95 or NT workstation to support Fibre Channel. While IBM wouldn't specify delivery dates, it says more Fibre Channel SAN offerings are on the way. When the ATM-switch market recently moved from single OC-3 ports to multiple ports, Cypress scrapped plans to redo its single-port transceiver, focusing its design resources instead on the rapidly expanding Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet markets.