storage area network deployment (fwd) - toasters

4 Jun 2001

      Anyone else getting the following unsolicited survey?  Just
wondering if nww.com is looking for names on this list, or if they got
my e-mail address some other way.  I haven't posted in a newsgroup in
years...
-- 
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:31:45 -0000
From: Deni Connor dconnor@nww.com
To: 'Brian Tao' taob@risc.org
Subject: storage area network deployment

I saw your name on a newsgroup and am interested in user perspective for a
story I am writing for Network World on storage.

Today, IBM, EMC, Compaq, Hitachi Data Systems, Brocaade and McData announced
the Supported Solutions Forum, which will offer storage area networking
solutions and unified support for customers. They say that with support
measures in place for heterogenous SANs that it will stop the fingerpointing
that takes place when a user adopts a multi-vendor SAN. The user will be
able to contact a vendor when he/she has a problem and that vendor will
contact other vendors to solve the problem. The companies will also build
128-port Fibre Channel SANs using McData and Brocade switches.

1. Would the existance of such a forum give you a better reason to adopt a
SAN?
2. Would you trust the members of this organization to handle cooperative
support better?
3. The organization doesn't support equipment from HP or Sun. Is this a
problem for your?
4. Are you adopting SANS? If yes, why? If not, why not?
5. If you have the vendor's assuances that the SAN products they put in will
interoperate, will that make it easier for you o adopt a SAN?
6. Would you be happier adopting a SAN knowing that it could be made up from
a variety of vendors products?
7. Do you think that being a member of this group will make vendors make
equipment more interoperable?
8 If I don't have this info, what is your title? Who do you work for? Where
are you located?

Thank you in advance.

Deni Connor
Senior Editor
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