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To: J Fieb who wrote (1131)	3/29/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

Here are some links for the new names at the June conference.... Storage Resource Manager™ Enterprise Edition Now Available highground.com "Retrieve has dramatically increased capabilities by augmenting SCSI and Fibre Channel with a data-sharing solution," says Thompson. "Server Area Network (SAN) is emerging as the data storage environment of choice for end users. But despite great advances and strengths, SAN lacks the ability to share data and storage dynamically with a full range of hosts. Until today." retrieveinc.com Formerly a strategic business unit of AT&T Network Systems, CommVault was founded in 1988 as an independent section of Bell Laboratories chartered to develop an automatic back-up, archiving and recovery software product for AT&T's own internal use. Over the last decade, CommVault Systems has experienced immense growth and increasing demand for its expanding storage management solutions. From commercializing its storage technology solutions in 1989 under Bell Laboratories to becoming an independent, privately owned company on May 22, 1996, CommVault Systems has become a $36 million dollar organization. commvault.com Lots of FC storage management software on display here. The slides of the FCA DEC meeting underscored the importance of test beds in Oracle...hence the highlight on their interesting comments...... ome advocate the migration of application, operating system, and database functionality from the host to the storage subsystem. This sounds very significant, can anyone in the biz offer futher comments and thoughts. How would this work, ie OS, apps, directly on a SAN? Is it possible soon? Note: It is hard to understand who goes to which events. No EMC, no ANCR, no Hitachi, No EDS. Perhaps they are not sponsoring the conference and have their own shows.....but always makes me nervous to see lack of attendance...is it significant?

To: J Fieb who wrote (1131)	3/29/1999 9:34:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

PS-Also good to see the Gp Bull is going to be weighing in fairly soon with......Scott Hansburry, Director, Groupe Bull This presentation will focus on the role that a common sub-framework can play to seamlessly view & report on all components of heterogeneous storage solutions. Solutions to integrate such technologies will be proposed. Key issues will include: · Neutral sub-frameworks · Storage Resource Standards · Practical responses; example solutions " Beyond "server-less" backup: The real killer apps in a SAN" Peripheral concepts who will put this conference together has strong historical ties with Bull...... .......... ARID J. NEEMA president of PERIPHERAL CONCEPTS, INC., has over thirty years of experience in the computer industry, half of which in the peripherals and the peripheral subsystems. He has held technical and management positions in the U.S. and in Europe. He was Chief Engineer at Honeywell Information Systems, Director of Product and Strategic Planning at Corporate Groupe Bull, and President and CEO of Bull Peripheral Corporation. As a representative to the Commission of the European Community in Brussels, Belgium, he chaired several Executive Strategic Committees and has consulted for the Commission as an expert on Peripheral Systems. He holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris, and a Masters Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in Paris, France. periconcepts.com

To: J Fieb who wrote (1131)	3/29/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Mr. J.Fieb, It seems the beauty of intelligent storage devices populating a network, is when accessing/crunching information for answers, you could be harnessing the power of hundreds of storage computers working on your requests, versus the current method of tapping into dumb devices that send raw information flooding back to you through a server to one CPU for processing. It seems that the potential of SANs to turn the internet into a new type of supercomputer is really exciting. It makes sense that if stored information is preprocessed to be more intelligent data before bouncing onto the network that whole networks would become smarter and there would be even more potential for "Software Agents" to go around the net quickly gathering and processing data for you and also raising the level of the network. Keep this great information coming. It is greatly appreciated. Joe W. From your post: "Modern disk drives, controllers, and storage subsystems are powerful computers in their own right with advanced processors, memory, and control software. Some advocate the migration of application, operating system, and database functionality from the host to the storage subsystem. Concurrent with this is the evolution of storage subsystems from being host-based to network-based. This presentation will focus on the appropriate level of functionality to implement in a network connected storage subsystem. Key issues covered include: · Trade-offs between functionality, performance, data availability and reliability · Principle of functionally autonomous disks"

To: J Fieb who wrote (1131)	3/31/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4808

SGI Showcase at NAB biz.yahoo.com * SAN Solutions Silicon Graphics will demonstrate its state-of-the-art Storage Area Network (SAN) to deliver partner applications running on its development platform. Silicon Graphics is the first server vendor to deliver robust SANs for the digital media market. Silicon Graphics platform-based SANs are currently in use in post-production environments, and the new technology demonstrations at NAB will show how the company is moving SAN technology into the broadcast market. Silicon Graphics also will demonstrate a high-performance solution for multichannel, multiformat video serving using Video Server Toolkit (VST) running on an Origin(TM) server. VST is a robust developer middleware product that is the heart of many of Silicon Graphics' broadcast solutions developed in conjunction with partners Panasonic and Channelmatic Inc., among others. By combining VST with other server-based solutions such as Panasonic DNA, users are able to distribute and view video with ease. VST represents a unified approach between Silicon Graphics Origin servers and other digital media components. P.S. - It's a good thing too, given their financial doldrum, preannouncing a .20 - .25 cent greater loss than anticipated: biz.yahoo.com