ADVISORY/Network Appliance and Quantum/ATL Host Storage Networking Media Briefing At N+I Las Vegas.

News Desks/High Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for May 10 (Wed.)

NetWorld Interop 2000

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

What: A briefing on the Open Storage Networking (OSN) Initiative
      featuring industry analyst and customer perspectives

      Participants: Amdahl, Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks, Legato,
                    Network Appliance, Quantum|ATL, Veritas

Why: Multivendor, interoperable SANs based on Gigabit Ethernet
     exist today and are being deployed at customer sites. Truly
     open storage networks can be deployed today and this is
     possible if they are built with standard, interoperable
     components, appliances, and networks. OSN focuses on
     integrating the available pieces required for SANs
     (connectivity/interconnect, compute servers, mirroring and
     disaster recovery solutions, tape backup, and storage
     appliances), offers a complete solution today (not in some
     distant promised future), and solves customer issues (ease of
     deployability, interoperability, and robust functionality.)

Presenters: Cindy Borovick, Program Manager, Data Center Networks, IDC
            David Hill, Research Director, Storage & Storage
             Management, Aberdeen Group
            Harris Bergman, Ph.D., co-founder and CTO, Medizeus
            Amy Rao, CEO, Integrated Archive Systems
             Qualcomm

Date/Time:  Wednesday, May 10 beginning at 8:30 a.m.
            8:30 a.m.       Continental breakfast
            9:00 a.m.       briefing begins
            9:40 a.m.       Q&A
            10:00 a.m.      conclusion

Location:   Las Vegas Hilton
            (adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center)
            Suite TBD

RSVP:       Space is limited, so RSVP to one of the press contacts to
            reserve a seat.