Hi Ravi--

Thanks for you note. I would be very interested in a meeting to establish an 
EBS-wide approach to storage. It's a huge opportunity.
We could expand the 2:30pm Friday meeting to include all interested EBS 
people and discuss the topics below. Could Shalesh coordinate this meeting 
and also coordinate the ongoing effort firm-wide? Have I omitted anything 
below?

As I see it, here are the key storage initiatives that EBS should undertake, 
and who is involved up to this point. 

1. - establish storage contract terms and pricing
Who's involved: Virawan, Jean Mrha Beach
 a.  define terms for storage needed for EBS products (MediaCast, 
MediaTransport, and new products)
 b.  define general terms for other storage contracts

2. - establish storage pooling points (SPP)
Who's involved: Shalesh, Richard Reichardt, Mark Palmer, Kara Knop
Who's needed: other designated people from Bloomer and Griebling groups, Jim 
Crowder's group input on alliances
 a.  define technology needed
  servers, storage devices
  control software for physical delivery
 b.  decide optimal SPP locations
  at/near existing bandwidth trading pooling points
  at/near existing EBS city PoPs
  at a hosting partner location
 c.  engage optimal partners to create SPP
  IBM
   IBM Global Services
   Tivioli (storage management software)
  EMC
  Sun
  Compaq
  existing storage portal vendors (e.g. Storage Networks)

3. - establish storage trading benchmark
Who's involved: unknown
Who's needed: Research group
 a.  define unit of measure for trading contract (e.g., terabyte-month)
 b.  establish pricing mechanisms

4. - identify (and monetize) storage market opportunites
Who's involved: unknown
Who's needed: Cox's group, Bloomer's group
 a.  storage intermediation opportunities
 b.  establish Virtual Storage Portal service for EBS




	Ravi Thuraisingham
	03/08/00 11:00 AM
		 
		 To: Mark S Palmer/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Jean Mrha/Enron 
Communications@Enron Communications, John Bloomer/Enron Communications@Enron 
Communications, Richard Reichardt/Enron Communications@Enron Communications
		 cc: Kara Knop, Stinson Gibner/HOU/ECT@ECT, Vince Kaminski, David Cox/Enron 
Communications@Enron Communications, Shalesh.Ganjoo@enron.com
		 Subject: Meeting for Friday on Storage

Hi Mark, I have not met you yet but heard a lot of good things about you.  I 
would like to discuss with you and possibly with John Bloomer and Richard 
Reichardt about the EBS Research's role in supporting the Storage market 
development from the origination and trading perspective.  There are several 
people in various groups that are talking about storage but here is what's my 
take on our involvement--please correct me or suggest otherwise.  

Shalesh Ganjoo is our lead analyst on this effort.  In addition to his effort 
with your group, he is presently supporting Jean Mrha with pricing and 
standardization for a traded storage maret--Stinson Gibner is directly 
supervising him in this effort.

Shalesh came to us through referal from David Cox--David discovered him at 
one of his speaking engagements.  Shalesh had talked to David about traded 
storage market development some time last October and David refered Shalesh 
to Enron Research group. We hired Shalesh for general analyst position and 
now he is pulled into all aspect of this storage effort.  Currently, he is 
our point person (with Stinson or I supervising his effort) who is supporting 
Jean Mrha and you on the subject.  Kara Knop has aproached Shalesh with 
request for some support and Shalesh and she are sorting out each other,s 
role in this regard.  As per my discussion today with David, we need to 
coordinate this storage effort from the perspective of modeling market 
assessment etc. For this I suggest Shalesh and his effort so that all parties 
involved can benefit from collective effort within one central source.  Based 
on David's and my assessment of Shalesh's capabilities, I would like to 
suggest that the commercial heads use Shalesh for his creative thinking, 
understanding of the market and analytical capabilities and not just for data 
gathering and simple research effort. We can add other staff as we see the 
need and as you request them. 

Please respond this e-mail with your comments if this sounds like aplan, so 
that we can support this effort efficiently and in a scalable manner.

Kind Regards,

Ravi.


A bit about EBS Research Group

John Bloomer and Richard Reichardt have met me and are aware of my role and 
Stinston Gibner's role in EBS. I lead a team of quantitative professionals 
via a group we are calling EBS Research.  This group reports to Stinson 
Gibner (VP) and Vince Kaminski (MD and Head of Enron Research).  Stinson and 
Vince are the original founders of Enron Corp Research that has been charged 
with model development efforts to support Enron Energy trading and other 
Enron business.  Enron Research is involved in all aspects of Enron buinesses 
(EES, International, Corporate affairs such as FAS 133 and other accounting 
and new product (derivatives) development, etc.).

Within EBS Research, there serveral professionals supporting Kevin Howard 
(CFO office), John Griebling, Tom Gros and Jean Mrha, David Cox (via Boris), 
and the War room.  Our main area of focus is with Jean Mrha (trading) and 
John Griebling (optical network design and optimization, etc.).  We play a 
key role with John Griebling's go forward network design and implementation 
through our responsiblity to provide traffic engineering analysis and 
modeling effort.


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	Shalesh Ganjoo@ECT
	03/07/00 08:01 PM
		 
		 To: Mark S Palmer/Enron Communications@Enron Communications
		 cc: Ravi Thuraisingham/Enron Communications@ENRON COMMUNICATIONS@ENRON
		 Subject: Meeting for Friday on Storage

Dear Mark,

I am looking forward to presenting my competitive analysis on the Storage 
market on Friday to you and others.  Ravi Thurasingham will be calling you to 
find out if we (Research Group) can assist your group in any other way.  
Please let me know if you need any information before we meet.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Shalesh Ganjoo