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To: Fang Li who wrote (21127)	3/17/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: doc	Respond to of 29386

don't answer the phone. it's likely your broker looking for a donation. glad i'm all cash.

To: Fang Li who wrote (21127)	3/17/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Bob Frasca	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Something from the EMC thread. Don't recall seeing it here. We already knew that the deal was with McData but it there is some interesting stuff in here anyway. EMC Announces New Fibre Channel Switch Quadruples servers that can link to Symmetrix arrays By Nancy Dillon 03/15/99 Hoping to break data-storage bottlenecks in many Fortune 500 data centers, EMC Corp. has announced a Fibre Channel switch that quadruples the number of servers that can link to its flagship Symmetrix disk array. "Switching technology is what will really drive storage density. Right now we seem to run out of connection ability before we run out the ability to add memory or disk," said Ted Keller, a manager of resource management at freight company Yellow Corp. in Overland Park, Kan. The new EMC switch is called Connectrix and comprises one or two 32-port Fibre Channel directors from McData Corp. in Broomfield, Colo. It offers centralized management, remote diagnostics and support for both Windows NT and Solaris. Pricing starts at about $300,000. "EMC is taking big steps to move storage networking along its way," said Nick Allen, an analyst at Gartner Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn. "But I doubt they'll be able to sustain [Connectrix's high] level of pricing." He pointed out that although Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC is proposing switch pricing of at least $4,000 per port, competitors are offering per-port charges in the $1,500 range. EMC also announced six Symmetrix arrays that offer increased capacities and new microcode that boosts performance and the maximum number of logical volumes from 1,024 to 4,096. The 3930, for open systems and PC LANs, and the 5930, for mainframes, support up to 9.3T bytes; other models support less. "A [single-system] 9T-byte capacity does sound startling at first. But we've got boxes today that are as big as our entire disk farm four years ago," Yellow's Keller said. He already has seven Symmetrix arrays and said annual storage growth for his mainframe and Unix systems is 30% and 60%, respectively. EMC is achieving the new capacity heights in part by incorporating the latest 36G-byte drives. But it isn't the first to pair the drives with Fibre Channel-attached systems. Artecon Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif., announced its support for the drives in January. The new Connectrix switch and Symmetrix arrays are part of EMC's storage-area network (SAN) strategy. In general, a SAN takes storage off isolated server buses and place it on a shared, high-speed I/O pipeline such as Fibre Channel. SANs are like back-end LANs that can incorporate network devices such as hubs and switches. Some promised benefits of SANs are easier information sharing, faster access to data and increased availability of front-end LANs and WANs. NEWS & FEATURES \| RESOURCE CENTER \| IT CAREERS \| COMPUTERWORLD, INC. Contact Us \| Search \| Site Map \| Subscribe Copyright © 1999 Computerworld, Inc. All rights reserved. Legal notices and trademark attributions