networks. These can be found on the web sites of companies such as Cisco (www.cisco.com) and Intel and (www.intel.com). The FCIA (www.fibrechannel.org) maintains an extremely useful web site with tutorials, compar- isons with alternative technological approaches, white papers, and numerous links to pertinent sources of information, including global efforts of standardization. The SNIA (www.snia.org) through its very comprehensive web site provides access to white papers, tutorials, publications, market research reports, an education center with articles and a list of numerous storage-related textbooks, links to multiple related industry-specific conferences and events, a certification program, an impressive glossary for storage technologies, and links to multiple industry resources, including their own recently launched Storage Management Initiative (SMI), which intends to develop the Bluefin specification. This creates the advanced object-based manage- ment technology that could lead to the manageable interoperability of multivendor SANs. More information can also be found at the following web sites: UNH IOL (www.iol.unh.edu/) IETF iSCSI FCIP IP Storage Working Group (IPSWG) (www.ietf.org). A major industry-related trade show is the Storage Networking World. Information can be found at their web site at www.storagenetworkingworld.com. Network World is a very interesting trade journal in this field and provides tutorials on new tech- nologies and business case presentations. In addition to companies embedding their own TOE and TCP termination engine designs inside their SNP chips, several companies are working on a standalone TOE. Here are a few good examples. Adaptec (www.adaptec.com), which acquired Platys (a major SNP startup) in 2001, maintains a large and extremely useful web site with numerous tutorials on storage technologies and TCP offload- ing, white papers, and links to other relevant sites of interest on the Internet. Another company that provides helpful information is Emulex (www.emulex.com). An exc