Hi folks, I'm not sure what the rules on this list are regarding advertising so instead of forwarding the announcement straight to the list I figured I'd just mention it myself. There is a boston area storage/backup/services company that ocasionally does free 1 day seminars. I went to their last one on SAN backup architectures and was very impressed with the technical talk and high signal-to-noise ratio. Their next event is in Boston on March 26th and may be of interest to local list members as it is basically about how to build & buy multi-terabyte storage systems on the cheap. Topics covered will include ethernet san's, IDE arrays (pros & cons), nearline storage with DVD and tape jukeboxes and disk virtualization. Anyone who is interested just drop me a line and I'll pass along the event info. -Chris http://bioteam.net