"HDS has never had a NAS presence," Prigmore says. "They even acknowledge that the NSS-based NAS product was a stopgap, tactical product. They haven't sold any of it. They know it's not competitive."
HDS Gets NAS Religion
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EMC has already integrated SRDF (remote mirror) and TimeFinder (internal mirror) into its Celerra HighRoad, Celerra SE and Chameleon products, and it is also poised to roll out Celerrion, which is slated to serve as a gateway for Symms, Clariions and eventually other storage systems. It's going to be tough for HDS to work around EMC's replication patents -- 4 out of 6 patents at issue in EMC vs HDS are replication patents -- while simultaneously embarking on a crash program to catch up with the NAS leaders (including Microsoft). At least IBM had the good sense to pirate one of Celerra's original developers before rolling out their Celerra clones which, interestingly enough, only came out after IBM and EMC inked their 1999 cross-licensing and supply agreement. As everyone here knows, that agreement was later modified after the settlement of IBM vs EMC (Data General) to include a no-sue period until 2005.
EMC'S Network Attached Storage History
1990
Development begins on core Celerra file and video server technology; blends file system and networking.
1994
July: EMC acquires DEC's video and file server technology and engineering team.
October: EMC aligns with Alcatel for HDTV video-on-demand using Celerra Media Server.
1995
February: EMC and Pacific Bell integrate the Celerra Media Server into the "Cinema of the Future."
1996
April: EMC announces Data Access in Real Time (DART) software; enables the intelligent storage and high-speed delivery of file-level data over networks.EMC announces the opening of its state-of-the-art Network Technology Center in Hopkinton, MA.EMC, Alcatel, and Nortel demonstrate delivery of high-definition video over telecommunications networks using the Celerra Media Server.
October: EMC announces the Celerra File Server, a new technological standard in enterprise-level network attached storage.
1997
EMC announces high availability and automated backup for Celerra File Server. Celerra becomes the first and (still) only single system image cluster to support 14 file servers.
1998
SPEC rates EMC Celerra as the world's fastest NAS system. Data General begins development of a high-availability mid-tier NAS product code named "Chameleon."
1999
April: Celerra adds (CIFS) support forWindows NT. Celerra adds Gigabit Ethernet support.
October: EMC acquires Data General, including research and engineering behind DG's mid-tier NAS offering.
December: SPEC rates EMC Celerra as the world's fastest NAS system for the second time.
2000
April: Celerra adds Fiber Channel Protocol support and NDMP support for network-based backup.
July: Once again, SPEC rates EMC Celerra as the world's fastest NAS system.
November: EMC acquires CrosStor Software, Inc., a leader in high-performance file systems and storage management software, and part of the development team of EMC's mid-tier NAS offering.
Customers rate EMC the #1 NAS Vendor, #1 SAN Vendor, #1 Storage Management Vendor. (SoundView)
October: EMC's most successful NAS quarter in history - $133 million in sales, 34% growth from the previous quarter and 189% year-on-year growth.
December: EMC announces the entry enterprise level Celerra SE and the mid-tier CLARiiON IP4700 NAS systems, code named "Chameleon."
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