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To: Neil S who wrote (20920)	2/28/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Neil, thanks for the link. From the same Computerworld article: <<<It will be several years before the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) finishes standardizing the management aspects of SANs. It will finish specifications that will let management software manipulate drives, switches, hubs and so on this year. "But the larger discussion, on how all the devices are managed as a whole, is just coming to the table," says Brad Stamas, an analyst at Storage Technology Corp. and an SNIA member. "So, standards by de facto? I expect some parts will show up that way." Because the vendors aren't waiting for the standard interfaces to fully bake, neither should users, says Andres Lofgren, an analyst at Giga Information Group Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. "We are years away from having these standards completely addressed, and there are plenty of other benefits users can get from SANs today that override what these standards will eventually deliver," he says. That's exactly the mind-set of Bob Cornelius, product manager at SunGard Recovery Services, a disaster recovery service in Wayne, Pa. The promise of complete interoperability -- being able to plug in any storage device from any vendor -- certainly has its appeal, "but I can wait for that," he says. "Besides, Compaq certifying that its SAN system will work is more valuable to us than total connectivity ever would be." >>>> I applaud the continued efforts by EMC, Ancor and others trying to push through an open standard for SANs. Early adoption of FC SANs will consist of mostly single vendor or vendors who have proven interoperability. The point is that these interoperability problems exist for non-FC SAN configurations. FC solution is not taking away any functions that companies use to have. FC SAN is offering companies flexibilties that are non precedented. They just need to figure out how to share their legacy old devices(probably only private loop capable) with the new ones (public and private loop capable). Many companies have hugh budget to purchase more prosessing and storage power for 1999. They would be hard press to purchase old technology. They can't affort to wait a couple years either for a final SAN standard so that they can plug devices of any vendor they wish into any SAN. One more point, neither Ancor nor Brocade are calling the shots, it is companies like EMC, SUN, HWP, IBM and the like (i.e. companies that customers go to first) are making the rules. So, these so-call initiatives from Brocade are a bunch of bull. KJ