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ince the mainframe

era, data storage con-

cernshave remained the province

of ITmanagers. Although the cor-

porate need to store data was

indisputable, the planning and

execution of storage fell to tech-

nology types who were better

suited to selecting arcane equip-

ment such astape units, optical

storage and removable drives.

But data storage is no longer a

mundane uti lity, a rote taskper-

formed to protect moderately

useful data against the unlikeli-

hood of fire, flood orearthquake.

4Dramaticchange in the businessworld demandsnew data storage approaches. Businessopera-

tionsare shift ing from 9-to-5 to 24/7. Corporate information systemsare developing into the l ifeblood

ofsalesand support, creating exploding data volume. Increasinglyseriousthreats such asthe September

11 attacks and cyber-criminals also pose significant challenges to businesscontinuity.

4Facing these realities requires senior executives to accept new data storage responsibi lities.

Not only is data storage now a crit ical component of responsible leadership, but it is also a smart

business strategy. The good news is that todays faster, more efficient and less costly options are

making it more affordable than ever before for business leaders to protect critical corporate infor-

mation assets. Understanding the challenges of the market, the technology and its usefulness in

addressing critical business issues is keyto creating comprehensive, secure storage strategiesable

to maintain data as a vital corporate asset.

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The Data Explosion

The most obvious pain point for large

enterprises is the exploding volume of

data produced by business operations. In

every industry, data volume has grown

thanks to new technologies, customer

demand and government regulation.

Publishing companies moving toward

digital pre-press publication and movie-

makers incorporating graphics-based

special effects require more storage.

Retailers selling to online customers

via e-commerce and manufacturers

expanding their supply chains to include

additional business partners and new

e-commerce transactions need extra

storage. Healthcare

companies abiding

by the Health

Insurance Port-

ability and

Accountability Act

(HIPAA), as well as

organizations that

mandate long-term

archiving of every-

thing f rom e-mail

messages to corporate records are

expanding their storage.

Many experts predict that corpora-

tions will continue to double their data

storage volume annually growth that

will multiply the associated manage-

ment and administrative burdens. But

most organizations cannot afford to

increase their storage staff, particularly

in this economy. Carefully crafted stor-

age strategies are the key to managing

the growing data volume more effec-

tively. The more data you have, the

more intelligent your protection and


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recovery schemes must be, says Brad

Stamas, chairman of the board of

directors for the Storage Networking

Industry Association (SNIA), and the

director of storage domain managementfor vendor StorageTek. In most cases,

that means automating as much of the

storage process as possible.

Automation enables an organization

to create processes for backing up data

and storing it in hierarchical levels of

accessibility. Automation tools take care

of the actual backup, providing storage

managers with real-time reports on

storage volumes, protection and capaci-

ty. Managers can override the controls

by exception.

Although

automation typi-

cally enhances

storage efficien-

cies, it can create

new challenges.

When converting

from manual stor-

age management,

automation often

requires new storage processes to enhance

productivity. The smartest way to exe-

cute a storage task in an automated

system might not be the way that an

administrator does it now, explains

Wayne Rickard, chairman of the SNIA

Technical Council and an independent

storage consult ant in Irvine, CA. Think

of the difference between flying a

Cessna and piloting a 747; with the

smaller plane, the pilot micromanages

every task, but the 747 pilot allows

automation to handle much of the

flight. With automated storage

Hewlett-Packard: MaximizingStorage Efficiencies

IT budgets require that IT managers maxi-

mize the efficiency of their storageresource.

Most IT managers will be challenged to

more effi ciently manage existing storage

systems and integrate them with future

storage purchases, without replacing one

with the other.

Hewlett-Packards Federated Storage Area

Management (Fsam) strategy enables

customers to band together disk and tape

systems, whether legacy or networked,

into scalable pools of storage.

HPs virtualization solutions enable users

to mix and match storage from different

vendors and allocate it to different users,

on demand, through a single console.

Hiding the complexity of managing multi-

vendor storage means users can manage

more data, on demand, with fewerresources. Utilizing existing storage

devices or adding to them as needed

maximizes the overall efficiency of

storage resources.

With Fsam today, you can plan capacity,

optimize performance and even disaster

recovery using common software, regard-

less of the storage hardware in the net-

work, says Tom Rallens, worldwide mar-keting manager for HP storage. Our

solutions maximize time-to-value and

improve capacity utilization, which signifi -

cantly increases effi ciency.

The more data you

have, the more

intelligent your

protection and

recovery schemesmust be.

Brad Stamas, SNIA


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technologies, administrators may need

to rethink their processes to gain the

greatest efficiencies.

Technology ChoicesGrowing data volume is also changing

the way that storage vendors design

their products. Distributed computing

networks once stored data on the server,

close to users. But these direct-attached

configurations are difficult to expand as

data volume grows, and are harder to

administer efficiently. With so much

data piling up, most vendors recognizedthe need for

the stored data

to exist apart

from the server.

Two server-

independent

configurations

dominate the

market: net-work-attached

storage (NAS) and storage area net-

works (SANs). NAS devices provide

shared storage across a network, often

in real-time, usually in self-contained

plug-and-play appliances specifically

designed for storage. NAS devices have

their own hardware, software and oper-

ating systems. SANs consolidate storagevolumes into a common repository. They

connect servers and storage devices

using a network of intelligent switches,

which are often linked by high-speed

fiber channel connections.

Although marketing collateral oft en

positions NAS and SAN solutions as an

either/or choice, most organizations

actually use some combination of the



two technologies. As organizations data

volume grows, its easier to justify all

types of storage solutions, says Stamas.

Companies need to look at their needs

and apply the storage solutions that bestaddress them. And as storage vendors

refine their offerings to meet customer

demand, many who formerly touted the

benefits of NAS or SANs are incorporat-

ing qualities of the other solution type

into their products.

Todays data storage market is bal-

anced; driven by both vendor innovation

and customer demand, the industryoffers a broad range

of personal- to

enterprise-grade

hardware and soft-

ware. Companies

today are bombarded

with a deluge of

data, says Werner

Heid, president andCEO of vendor

Iomega Corp. To address this rampant

data growth, the storage industry has

been at the forefront of a rapid evolu-

tion in innovative, high-capacity storage.

Now small businesses and corporations

of all sizes have numerous options,

including personal disk drives, removable

devices, network-attached storage andgeneral-purpose servers. It is an exciting

time in the storage industry.

The Continuity Crisis

As the pendulum shifts to more data-

centric computing and high profile

security breaches make headlines, the

need for protective data storage strate-

gies becomes clearer. CIOs protected

EMC: AutomatedInformation Storage

The industry shift to the networking of

storage infrastructures has had a multipliereffect on IT complexity. Customers need

not only connect multiple brands of het-

erogeneous storage systems, host storage

resources and network devices, but also

mask and simply manage this underlying

complexity. The ultimate goal is to reduce

storage management and integrat ion costs

and speed time to deploy new applications.

EMChas built the worlds most successful

storage business by foreseeing marketrequirements, investing early and aggres-

sively to put real solutions in customers

hands faster than any other vendor. From

intelligent external storage in the early

1990s, storage software in 1994, open

storage in 1995, and networked storage

in 1999, the company now offers open

storage management through EMCs

AutoIS automated information storage

strategy.AutoIS enables businesses to unify dis-

parate information storage resources into

one seamless infrastructure to draw

from the best of multiple vendors hard-

ware, software and connectivity devices.

With AutoIS, businesses can:

manage more information at lower

cost than ever before;

increase productivity by collaborating inan open management environment;

provide new capabilities for information

replication, protection, and recovery.

To learn more about AutoIS, go to:

http:/ / www.emc.com/ technology/

auto_is.jsp

Post 9/11 stories of

companies whose

strategies paid off

helped business

leaders understand

storage priorities.


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data before the September 11 attacks,

and most had developed risk manage-

ment strategies, but the post-9/11 sto-

ries of businesses whose storage, backup

and recovery planning paid off (andthose whose did not) helped many

business leaders better understand data

storage priorities and requirements.

How can data storage support an

enterprises business continuity plans?

Data can be stored close to its users,

which makes it quick and easy for users

to retrieve but often puts it directly in

the path of dan-ger. The farther

away data is

stored whether

across a campus

or across the

country the

more expensive

and time-con-

suming it is to retrieve and restore, butthe less likely it is to be impacted by a

disaster in another region or time zone.

For example, some companies located in

the World Trade Center had backup loca-

tions in other parts of lower Manhattan.

When the entire southern tip of the

island was off-limits for weeks, their

data was inaccessible as well.

Technology solutions to this problemvary. The traditional approach mirrors

the data at one site to another one far

away; this requires maintaining twice as

much system capacity, which is costly.

Data can be remotely replicated, but

copying a fi le over network communi-

cations transports is a very slow process.

Some vendors have come up with

methods that copy only changed data,

which is faster because only the

changes (rather than the entire file)

are copied to the remote storage area.

Intelligent information storage systems

that run advanced management soft-ware are the key to delivering real data

protection affordably, says Joseph

Walton, senior vice president for global

services at vendor EMC Corp.

One developing protocol that eases

the distance limitations of smaller

private networks for remote backup

is iSCSI (Internet Small Computer

System Interface).Supported by most

larger storage

vendors, iSCSI lets

companies run

block-level storage

traffic over t radi-

tional IP networks

such as Ethernet,

removing distance limitations. Currently,says SNIAs Rickard, network file systems

can be used to transfer files. Future

enhancements, likely to come within a

few years, will enable the protocol to

handle block updates to data volumes

supporting remote physical storage.

Another approach is to ensure that

backup, archiving and disaster recovery

systems are integrated with the applica-tions being supported. The more exten-

sive the integration, the better the

chances that the application and all of

its data can be recovered during crisis. In

addition, integration between the enter-

prise storage resource management

applications and the backup and recov-

ery tools can be helpful. Companies

need a storage foundation that creates

StorageNetworks:Managing Data Storage

The box era in data storage is over. With

distributed, heterogeneous networks dis-persing information across the enterprise,

corporations now struggle to manage cost-

ly and complex storage environments.

Hardware wont solve the problem of

managing this growing complexity, and

storage devices that are directly attached

to computers are too costly and operate

too inefficiently to solve mounting chal-

lenges.

The solution is clear: networked storage

that increases data utilization and avail-

ability, lowers costs, and delivers data

backup and protection that is critical to

business continuity. StorageNetworks is a

Waltham, MA-based company delivering

on the promise of networked storage by

providing its customers with robust enter-

prise storage resource management soft-

ware and services rooted in years of net-

worked storage management expertise.

The opportunity for enterprises lies in

cost-effectively managing their complex

multi-vendor storage environments, while

delivering higher availability and utiliza-

tion, says Peter Bell , chairman and CEO

of StorageNetworks. Our software and

services provide customers like Merrill

Lynch, EDS, and Cisco with the critical stor-

age software management layer to drive

costs and complexities out of their storage

environments.

Backup, archiving and

disaster recovery

systems must be

integrated with

supported applications.


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dynamic communication between the

applications and the storage system,

says Dan McCormick, vice president of

worldwide marketing for vendor

XIOtech. Properly designed, this founda-tion reduces the complexity of manage-

ment and administration tasks, enabling

enterprises to respond more flexibly to

changing business requirements.

No matter which technologies are

chosen, experts say, each corporation

must carefully structure it s storage for

maximum effi ciency and protection. If

primary storage infrastructure wheredata is first written is organized and

managed well,

your levels of pro-

tection and your

ability to recover

from disaster rise

significantly, says

John Clavin, senior

vice president ofmarketing for vendor StorageNetworks.

If the infrastructure is not efficiently

organized, its virtually impossible to

make your other business continuity

plans work well.

Maximizing Manageability

As data volumes expand and business

continuity becomes more critical, man-ageability of data storage becomes

increasingly important. Manageability is a

problem precisely because of the way the

storage market has developed. Two

decades ago, the cost of computing was

only slightly impacted by storage costs.

Storage was a built-in technology that

could not be purchased separately.

Growing corporate appetites for data

storage have been fed by falling prices

and better technology. Since the early

1990s, storage prices measured per unit

have dropped about 30 percent annually,

while storage recording volume hasincreased 100 percent approximately

every 18 months. Last year, for the first

time, the value of storage sales was higher

than the value of computing hardware.

Relatively low prices encouraged corpo-

rations to simply buy more storage

whenever they ran out of capacity.

In most large organizations, this

approach has resulted in a huge collec-tion of non-networked storage devices.

An enterprise with

hundreds (if not

thousands) of stor-

age devices scattered

across the country or

around the world

faces the Herculean

task of understand-ing the capacity or processing efficiency

of any number of machines. Further,

using these storage areas as a shared

corporate resource is nearly impossible.

Each storage mechanism must be

viewed, monitored and managed indi-

vidually a time-consuming, costly,

and ineffective approach.

Networking some or all of thedevices offers the promise of viewing

storage capacity as a shared resource,

an asset that can be sliced up and allo-

cated to users as needed. Using NAS or

SAN technology, corporations can con-

nect storage devices and treat them as a

joint asset. In theory, the corporate stor-

age asset could be distributed according

to need; for example, an archiving

Iomega: One Source forStorage Solutions

Iomega Corp., famed creator of the

removable Zip drive personal storagedevice, understands that data storage

technologies must be not only compatible

but also complementary. The company,

which has shipped more than 46 million

Zip drives and 270 million Zip disks since

the mid-1990s, of fers a full complement

of storage technology to large organiza-

tions, small and medium businesses,

small office and home office users,

and consumers.

In addition to excelling in removable

storage, Iomega is a leading provider in

U.S. aftermarket sales of CD-RW optical

drives. In the hard drive market, the com-

pany will be announcing new product lines

to meet user needs for increased storage

capacity. A new line of network-attached

storage devices will manage files, store

e-mails, and back up information at afraction of the cost of general-purpose

servers.

Says Werner Heid, Iomega president and

CEO: With the markets inherent trust

in our Zip products and our companys

reputation for ease of use, Iomega is

the logical choice for companies with

complex storage requirements. Iomega

is committed to providing a full range ofstorage solutions for protecting, sharing

and transporting our customers digital

valuables.

Managing all these

storage devices is a

still-developing

science.


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application that requires availability of

99.999 percent (what vendors refer to

as 5 9s) can receive more capacity

than a desktop user who needs only

scratchpad storage.But managing all of these devices is

still a developing science. Vendors rec-

ognize that having one centralized

management approach would enhance

the technologys return on investment

and enable more efficient operation.

But most of the management software

is directly tied to

the hardware itcomes with in

other words, it

is proprietary,

not open. In a

heterogeneous

environment,

where storage technologies from dif-

ferent vendors are used, the devices

cannot communicate and their capaci-ty cannot be pooled or shared.

The newest technique for address-

ing manageability is a concept called

virtualization. SNIAs Technical

Council says that virtualization pro-

vides useful abstractions by integrating

one or more (storage) services or func-

tions with additional functionality.

Typically, the definition continues, vir-tualization involves hiding complexity,

adding or integrating new functionali-

ty, or emulating, aggregating or divid-

ing existing services. In terms of man-

ageability, virtualization can be used to

aggregate many physical storage

devices into one virtual storage pool,

which can be managed transparent

to users, applications and the network.

Another example of data storage virtu-

alization allows storage managers to

add security to otherwise insecure

devices.

Virtualization may help companieswith legacy storage hardware devices

build an integrated management strate-

gy. Large enterprises have a huge

investment in old systems hardware

and specific storage around that tech-

nology which locks them into buying

from that vendor, says Tom Rallens,

worldwide market-

ing manager f orstorage at

Hewlett-Packard.

Virtualization can

bring software

management to a

non-vendor-specific

level, so buyers have a choice. The bene-

fit is bett er manageabilit y of purchase

costs and total cost of ownership.But buyers must beware: the virtual-

ization market is still developing, and

there are no definitive standards.

Marketing jargon is rampant and each

storage vendor applies the concept dif-

ferently. Virtualization is not one thing,

it is several things, says Rickard of

SNIA, and some of them are mutually

exclusive. This will be the next battle-ground for the data storage market.

Maturing Industry

Although the data storage industry is

extremely competitive, vendors have

been pairing up to deliver more com-

prehensive solutions to buyers.

Companies sell one anothers comple-

mentary products, share application

Computer Associates:Manageabil ity Through aUnified View

Storage technology clearly constitutes acrucial underpinning of todays corporate

success. No longer a mere utility, careful

data storage strategies can determine how

well corporate data assets are protected

and how quickly recovery occurs after a

disaster or system outage.

With this unprecedented dependence on

information and content comes new exec-

utive responsibil ity. How can business

leaders best protect these assets, realisti-cally plan for storage growth, and actively

manage existing data?

By choosing a unified data storage man-

agement strategy that enables visibility

across the enterprise including hetero-

geneous IT systems, devices, databases,

and applications. Whats needed is an

integrated product set that uses state-of-

the-art portal technologies to help users

spotlight storage pressure points, forecastdemand, and prepare for impending data

growth. The solution? BrightStor, an

integrated approach to enterprise storage

management from Computer Associates.

Built on Computer Associates heritage

of powerful cross-enterprise management

solutions, BrightStor provides all of the

tools companies need to artfully handle

todays data storage challenges.

BrightStor delivers one view that shows

the health of storage processes as well

as data and devices, says Phil Treide,

Computer Associates vice president of

marketing for storage solutions. This

unifi ed view is imperative to understand-

ing an organizations storage needs and

making the right choices for today

and tomorrow.

Virtualization will bethe next battleground

for the data storage

market.

Wayne Rickard, SNIA


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programming interfaces (APIs), and

partner with services organizations.

Enterprise customers need a full range

of hardware, software and services to

meet their expansive and growing datastorage needs, says Pat Martin, chair-

man, president and CEO of vendor

StorageTek. Were here to solve our

customers problems. If we dont have

what they need, well deliver it through

our network of resources and relation-

ships with other vendors.

Business leaders can also learn more

about storage and even influencetechnology devel-

opment by

participating in

industry-wide

organizations

such as SNIA. The

SNIA Supported

Solutions Forum

(SSF), which bringsvendors together to develop complete

solutions, invites end users to contribute

suggestions. SNIAs support of these

vendor dialogues enables multi-vendor

cooperation, says Stamas, the SNIA

chairman of the board. SNIA also docu-

ments these supported solutions, making

reference models available for enter-

prises that need assistance in develop-ing their own storage strategies.

SNIA also supports a wide range of

special interest groups including

the SSF, the IP Storage Forum and the

Technical Council which work togeth-

er to explore issues and concerns, define

terms and taxonomies, and provide

education. SNIA offers tutorials and edu-

cation programs covering all aspects of



storage, from basic instruction in storage

networking to workshops on tactics for

fundamental issues such as backup and

recovery, to highly technical t opics such

as Fibre Channel operations. By servingthe business community and providing a

forum for storage vendors to gather and

work together, industry-supported edu-

cation is beneficial to corporations and

vendors alike, says Stamas.

In addition, new educational pro-

grams are making it easier for business

leaders to learn about the intricacies of

storage. Seminars and conferences spon-sored by SNIA,

other organizations

and vendors can

help executives

better understand

what was, until

recently, an enig-

matic discipline.

Organizations canalso have their storage personnel certi-

fied in related disciplines; SNIA offers the

Storage Networking Certification

Program (SNCP) to provide a benchmark

for measuring the storage networking

expertise of IT professionals. To bring

along new storage professionals, leading

academic institutions with demonstrated

technology interests such as Carnegie-Mellon University are creating new pro-

grams in storage education. With science

and engineering students committed to

data storage, the future for ongoing

technology innovation is bright.

Scientific research may also advance

data storage technologies. Tatiana

Makarova, a Russian physicist from the

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in

XIOtech: DeliveringMore ManageableStorage Solut ions ToThe Enterprise

With data storage needs growing at an

astounding rate, many organizations are

considering network storage solutions as a

way to simplify data management,

increase network availability, and

decrease costs. XIOtechs products and

services along with their Enterprise

Solutions Program and SANbuilder

Solution Series were designed to specifi-

cally address those needs.

Imagine being able to carve out space,

expand storage, link to storage on other

devices, and logically move terabytes of

data in seconds, with only a few key

strokes all without bringing the sys-

tem down, says Dan McCormick, XIOtech

vice president, worldwide marketing.

XIOtech has made this a reality, and it is

helping solve real business issues today.

XIOtech Enterprise Solutions providedetails on solution configurations, storage

management applications, and network

inf rastructure. XIOtechs SANbuilder

Solutions are application-driven storage

solutions for specific application platforms,

including Oracle, messaging, and health-

care. It is the first virtualized storage

architecture optimized for out-of-the-box

use with specific enterprise applications.

The SANbuilder series provides the funda-mental benefits of a SAN and the unique

capabilities of XIOtech, married in mean-

ingful ways to applications. Tightly cou-

pling the SAN architecture and applica-

tions means immediate benefits to the

enterprise.

Educational programs

help executives

understand the

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St. Petersburg, reportedly created flexible,

transparent sheets of carbon that could

serve as the foundation for inexpensive,

durable and most important

extremely high-density storage. Whileexperimenting with buckyballs to pro-

duce high- temperature superconductors,

the scientist accidentally created a

non-metallic substance that is magnetic

at room temperature up through

200 degrees Celsius.

Lighter and

more flexible than

metallic magnets,the organic mag-

nets are well-suit-

ed to electronic

devices, and their

semi-conducting

and insulating

qualities could be

useful for comput-

er chips. Becausethe material is photo-responsive that is,

it changes properties when exposed to

light it could be the next big thing in

optical storage.

A Word of Advice

In the final analysis, however, the

responsibility for creating and imple-

menting proper data storage approach-es rests with corporate leadership. The

first step to developing powerful, man-

ageable and protected corporate data

assets is to understand the value of

carefully designed storage strategies.

And by all accounts, executives arebeginning to grasp this reality.

Were seeing a renewed focus on

performance and the real integrity of

companies data availability solutions,

says Phil Treide, vice president of

marketing for storage solut ions for

vendor Computer

Associates. People

are taking anotherlook at their overall

storage manage-

ment strategy as

well as at the qual-

ity of their practical

implementations.

The bigger

change may be

for corporationsto act on the reality that storage is an

enterprise asset, not a departmental

utility. As business issues drive the need

for comprehensive data storage strate-

gies and solutions, the business mindset

must change. CIOs must take a much

greater interest in storage, says Rickard.

They are the champions who can help

enterprises build a storage infrastructurethat is truly a corporate asset.

StorageTek: StreamliningStorage Management

Enterprises everywhere are bending under

staggering data storage loads. Ironically,carrying the load may prove to be the

easy part; managing the load is the real

challenge. Because of multiple storage

devices, operating systems and network-

ing environments, it may prove impossible

to deliver increasing volumes of data to

those who need it, when they need it.

"StorageTek has spent 32 years develop-

ing end-to-end storage expertise thatincludes disk, tape, storage networking

and services," said Pat Martin, chairman,

president and CEO. "We have developed

strong storage management offerings

across all of our products. In the next few

years, we expect to streamline those

offerings and achieve our goal of virtually

eliminating all human intervention in the

increasingly complex task of managing

storage.

StorageTek offers a wide range of fully

managed data storage solutions that pro-

vide cost-effective storage capacity, and

help businesses by providing a flexible,

scalable, easy-to-manage storage environ-

ment that meet business requirements.

From service providers that need customer

data around the clock to enterprises that

must adjust data according to annual busi-

ness cycles or seasonal requirements,

StorageTek solutions are flexible enough

to meet any need.

The biggerchange may be for

corporations to act on

the reality that storage

is an enterprise asset,

not a departmental

utility.


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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit

organization, made up of over 300 companies and individuals spanning vir-

tually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to

set the pace of the industry by ensuring that storage networks become effi-

cient, complete and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end

the SNIA is committed to delivering standards, education and services that

will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. Key

programs and initiatives include: the biannual Storage Networking Worldconference, the SNIA Technology Center in

Colorado Springs, and the SNIA Fibre

Channel-SAN Certification Program for

storage networking professionals.

For information, contact the SNIA at

650-949-6720 or via e-mail at

execut [email protected], or visit

the SNIA Web site at www.snia.org.

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LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. www.lsilogicstorage.com

SNIA www.snia.org

Spectra LogicCorporation www.spectralogic.com

StorageNetworks, Inc. www.storagenetworks.com

StorageTek www.storagetek.com

XIOtech www.xiotech.com

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