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To: Roger Arquilla who wrote (20881)	2/24/1999 10:42:00 PM
From: Lhn5	Respond to of 29386

OT I am not sure aobut the rest of the country, but onthe west coast if you check out the western skyline between dusk and 730 pm. there is a great, bright view of Venus and Jupiter sitting on top of one another separated by only a few degrees. Taking time out for a look may be good therapy for the stressed, whoever they may be.

To: Roger Arquilla who wrote (20881)	2/24/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: Lhn5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Attaching everything (paragraph 9 mentions 8 ports but I don't think this refers toa FC switch) Help form the technically less challenged?: IBM Teams With Pathlight Technology to Deliver New San Data Gateway Under Multi-Year Agreement ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1999--IBM Storage System Division has teamed with Pathlight Technology to deliver the new IBM SAN Data Gateway under a multi-year agreement. The IBM SAN Data Gateway is part of IBM's Storage Area Network initiative designed to help customers create and extract value from their business information by enabling IT resource management and information sharing any time, anywhere across storage networks. "The IBM SAN Data Gateway is the foundation of a complete SAN solution," said Duane Dueker, Business Line Manager for IBM Storage Systems Division's Storage Area Network unit. "Pathlight is unique in being the only company to have brought this advanced level of gateway technology to market, correctly identifying all of the key ingredients needed to make SANs work." The design of the IBM SAN Data Gateway is driven by Pathlight's SAN Gateway technology. The IBM Storage Area Network Data Gateway delivers interconnectivity that enables the attachment of SCSI and Ultra SCSI-attached disk and tape storage systems to Fibre Channel-enabled UNIX-based servers from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard as well as Fibre Channel-enabled Intel-based servers running Windows NT. The IBM SAN Data Gateway utilizes heterogeneous interfaces, including Ultra SCSI channel and Fibre Channel bandwidth, for attachment of heterogeneous devices such as the IBM Versatile Storage Server; the Magstar 3590 Tape Subsystem; the Magstar 3494 Tape Library, the Magstar 3590 Silo Compatible Tape Subsystem environments; the Magstar MP 3570 Tape Subsystem or the Magstar MP 3575 Tape Library Dataserver. Pathlight has built its gateway solutions to provide transparent performance, seamlessly attaching to devices across multiple interfaces while letting each deliver their full performance capability across the SAN network. The IBM SAN Data Gateway includes Pathlight's onboard SAN intelligence. This intelligence sets the gateway apart from other SAN products by enabling it to provide access control - a fundamental requirement in multi-host SAN solutions and the basis for enabling true resource sharing. Access control is how, for example, one ensures that multiple servers can not access the same LUN on a storage device and interrupt a backup or cause data loss. IBM's Storwatch SAN Data Gateway Specialist takes advantage of Pathlight's platform independent JAVA application to provide full network management. The IBM StorWatch SAN Data Gateway Specialist simplifies the management of SAN Data Gateways by providing a graphical user interface to centrally configure, manage and service multiple SAN Data Gateways across the enterprise. The IBM StorWatch SAN Data Gateway Specialist runs on attached host servers and network-attached Windows NT workstations. The heartbeat of the entire SAN environment can be remotely monitored and controlled from a single point with event logging and notification, error analysis and health check capability for predictive failure analysis. Future Growth Pathlight's SAN Gateway solutions are built to provide the best platform for delivering value added functionality for addressing specific data resource issues customers are facing today. For example, Pathlight SAN Gateways are the first 100 percent protocol aware SAN devices, simultaneously sensing all the hosts, devices and interfaces that are attached to it. This makes them the ideal site for supporting high performance direct disk to tape backup solutions in large data centers where backup has traditionally been a significant bottleneck. The IBM SAN Data Gateway is a fully scalable product with a variety of configurable Fibre Channel and SCSI options. Up to seven ports can each be configured using modular plug-in cards. Using the interfaces for host or device, extremely powerful SAN solutions can be created. A site can start with just a few interfaces and then grow as needs dictate. "IBM's use of the SAN Data Gateway demonstrates the company's deeper understanding of the inherent potential of SAN," says Said Rahmani, Senior Vice President of Pathlight. "To date, SAN implementations have only addressed the technical issue of physically separating storage from servers using hubs and switches. That is not really SAN. IBM recognized that only a gateway product could provide the higher level of functionality needed to really affect change in the application of storage. The SAN Data Gateway achieves that by complementing the essential hub and switch components to create a fully-managed resource-sharing SAN environment." Further information about the IBM SAN Data Gateway can be obtained at ibm.com. About Pathlight Technology, Inc. Pathlight Technology, Inc. has been defining, developing and implementing Storage Area Networks (SANs) since 1994. As the leading provider of SAN solutions, Pathlight has made the sharing of critical data storage resources possible in some of today's most challenging environments, ranging from banks and corporations to cable news and television broadcast facilities. Pathlight develops, manufactures and markets a complete family of SAN products. For more information about Pathlight call 607-266-4000 or visit the Pathlight web site at pathlight.com. CONTACT: Evan Sirof Telephone: 718-225-9225 Fax: 718-225-9226 Email: esirof@concentric.net To edit your profile, go to keyword NewsProfiles. For all of today's news, go to keyword News.