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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (21638)	5/3/1999 10:25:00 PM
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techweb.com ÊTechnology NewsDell, HP, IBM Offer Network Storage Devices (05/03/99, 5:39 p.m. ET) By Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek Businesses are beginning to recognize that the future of storage is on the network, not at the server level, and vendors are rushing to respond. This week, Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard will deliver network-attached storage (NAS) devices for Ethernet networks, while IBM will upgrade its offerings for data-specific Fibre Channel storage area networks. Dell already partners with Data General's Clariion division to provide customers with a SAN solution for Windows NT servers. Now it's teaming with Network Appliance to resell and support its NAS products, which can provide Windows and NT users accessto data on Unix systems. The PowerVault 700N and 700F start at $19,500 and can store up to 1.4 terabytes. "Some customers need SANs to better share data between application servers," said Bobbi Hazard, Dell's director of storage. "But some just need to deliver data to clients better, and that's best served by NAS." HP is improving its optical NAS product line: Its new high- end SureStore CD-ROM Server Plus has six CD drives and an 18-gigabyte hard drive that speeds simultaneous access to CD data. Mike Suman, technical manager for compression component manufacturer IMI Norgren, said Server Plus has speeded the process of loading software across the Littleton, Colo., company's network. It now takes less than a minute, vs. a half-hour when loading software from a CD player on an NT application server, he said. The Server Plus is $4,300 and will be available in June, along with three other optical products. On the SAN front, IBM this week will enhance its RS/6000- based Network Storage Manager, which combines hard disks with tape drives for direct backup from NT and Unix servers. Hard-disk capacity will double to 864 GBs; cache memory will increase to 3 GBs; and RAID 5 technology will be added for data redundancy on one set of drives. Pricing starts around $79,300. Related Stories:More Storage, Less Money -- Network-Attached Storage Proves The Right Solution For Many Situations Meeting The Data Onslaught -- From Disk Arrays To Tape, There's A Slew Of Storage Options