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Welcome to ET Update ** Monday, December 3, 1998

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ET Update ... Late-breaking news on the
technologies that impact your enterprise.

from the publishers of Enterprise Technologies(TM)

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1)Sun/AOL Join Forces to Boost E-Commerce
2)Sun Delivers NT-compatible FC-AL Storage
3)Sun Servers Deliver Compute Power and Graphics
4)Special Promotions from Sun
5)Oracle Chooses VERITAS
6)Packeteer Helps Set and Enforce SLAs
7)Should You Outsource?

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NEWS FROM SUN
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Sun Microsystems and America Online Form Strategic Alliance!

The goal of the Sun/AOL alliance is to accelerate the growth
of enterprise-class e-commerce. Sun and AOL will work
together to develop a comprehensive suite of easy-to-deploy,
end-to-end solutions to help companies and ISPs rapidly enter
the e-commerce market and scale their e-commerce operations.
The alliance followed AOL's separate announcement that it
will acquire Netscape.
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9811/sunflash.981124.1.html


Sun StorEdge A5000 Learns to Speak NT

Furthering its commitment to the heterogeneous storage
market, Sun has extended Windows NT compatibility to the
Sun StorEdge(TM) A5000 Fibre Channel array. Customers
can use the same advanced, enterprise-class storage
solutions for their Solaris and Windows NT servers, for
maximum operational flexibility and investment
protection. Concurrent storage support to Windows NT
Servers also allows customers to access NT network
services on Solaris servers.


Sun Brings Elite3D m6 Graphics Support
To Enterprise 3x00-6x00 Systems

Sun Elite3D m6 high-performance graphics support is now
available in Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 and older 3000-
6000 systems. Applications ranging from CAD to modeling
to analysis are placing increasing demands on graphics
hardware. The Elite3D graphics/Enterprise server
combination meets the need for high-performance compute,
memory, I/O and other server support features -- plus
graphics.

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SUN SPECIALS
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Sun has shipped 1.6 petabytes of Sun StorEdge A5000
array Fibre Channel storage since the product's
introduction one year ago. Join the revolution! Through
March 1, 1999, you can trade up your Sun SPARCstorage
Array for a Sun StorEdge A1000, A3500 or A5000.
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OTHER NEWS
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Oracle Chooses VERITAS

Oracle has chosen VERITAS for enterprise storage management
solutions. VERITAS NetBackup(TM) will provide backup and
recovery for Oracle's worldwide data, totaling more than 50
terabytes. Oracle also chose VERITAS solutions for data
management, optimization and availability to simplify
administration and significantly reduce costs.

Announcing VERITAS Database Edition 2.0 for Oracle!

VERITAS Database Edition 2.0 for Oracle is an integrated
suite of industry-leading VERITAS products engineered to
deliver superior performance, easier manageability and
continuous database access for Oracle database servers. It's
the best of both worlds: the performance and data integrity
of raw devices with the manageability of file systems. The
Cached Quick I/O feature facilitates full use of large system
memory for up to 140% faster performance than raw partitions.
http://www.veritas.com/


Packeteer Adds Response Time Management to Packetshaper,
Providing Everything Needed to Set and Enforce SLAs

A new report from Bear, Stearns & Co. called Packeteer's
PacketShaper bandwidth management system "the only solution
on the market that can look deep into each packet and help
achieve real QoS." Now, Packeteer has added application
response-time management (RTM) to PacketShaper, enabling
network managers to measure the performance of applications,
then set policies ensuring performance conforms to enterprise
requirements. With RTM, application performance problems,
often caused by extreme variability in network delay, can be
correlated to network congestion. PacketShaper is the first
solution to provide all three features necessary to control
application service levels across congested WANs.
http://www.packeteer.com/press/rtm_pr.htm


Time to Outsource?

Whether you need to reduce costs, boost staffing levels or
gain needed technical expertise, outsourcing may be the
answer. Top outsourcing candidates include desktop support,
help-desk services, and network infrastructure design and
support. If any of these projects are in your future -- or if
you're simply struggling with growing workloads amid the IT
worker shortage -- it may be time to bring in an experienced
systems integrator. AVCOM is the source for all of your
hardware/software needs AND technical expertise in
networking, high availability, e-commerce and more.
http://www.avcom.com

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