Dell
Hi Eric.
Regarding Dell's comment "Our goal is to commoditize the low-end to midrange portion of this market", my thoughts are that they have to say that, because that's all they know how to do. It's the "use the ability to screw generic boxes together cheaper than your competitors" philosophy. In the PC space, where, by definition a PC is a commodity, it's served them well.
However:
As DownSouth always points out, NetApp's strength is in their high performance WAFL file system, their ability to provide this performance while using RAID, and their Snapshot/SnapMirror/SnapRestore data administration utilities.
They're offering data storage and management solutions, which happen to utilize NAS, not just NAS storage.
Big difference.
I looks like today's going to be another very, very rough day. Good luck to everyone.
Steve |
