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To: trendmastr who wrote (1179)	4/24/1999 8:42:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

INTC branches out...but is kind of late, will they need to build a big SAN and need some FC help?? mercurycenter.com Intel makes big move to Internet NEW YORK (AP) -- Computer chip maker Intel Corp., recognizing that there are billions of dollars to be made on the Internet, is planning a big move online by creating a data-services center. Intel itself will not become an Internet service provider, but it will provide outsourcing services to those companies. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based microprocessor giant will set up data centers with thousands of powerful computers known as servers to provide data processing, storage and other computing services for companies that connect users to the Internet. Intel chief executive officer Craig Barrett told the Wall Street Journal that the company is taking advantage of the rapid growth of electronic commerce to position itself as the ''building-block supplier to the Internet economy.'' Gerhard Parker, a longtime manufacturing executive who was appointed to head Intel's new business ventures last year, told the Journal that the new venture will likely bring Intel into competition with companies such as IBM Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Inc. But analysts told The New York Times Intel is a late entrant into the market, far behind IBMand Exodus Communications Inc., and doubt that the chip maker has any advantage in running da IBMs strong Q....... Revenues from business services, through which IBM installs and runs corporate computers, rose 19 percent to $7.6 billion. Chief financial officer Douglas Maine said during a conference call with analysts that IBM had received nine service contracts worth nearly $10 billion in the quarter -- including deals with AT&T Corp., CompUSA, Ford Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Trust -- and now has contracts totaling $55 billion. Chairman and chief executive Louis Gerstner said in a statement that the Don't worry about holgraphic storage making all optical SANs a reality for awhile..... upside.com tuffing 30 Terabytes Into Dice Lab Watch April 23, 1999 by Robert Buderi ....... Formidable obstacles remain. One is that refractive changes only last about 10 seconds at room temperature. Another is that there's no way to selectively erase data: Everything must go in order to eliminate even one bit. Undeterred, Linke and NEC researcher Warren Smith have patented a "dynamic refresh" technology designed to read out and rewrite data every few seconds. It won't be reliable enough for archival storage, but it might do for security camera footage, for instance. Moreover, Linke notes, a refresh scheme solves the data-erasing problem because users can choose to rewrite only the portions they want.