> Like a NTAP zealot
...but I'm not, I'm just trying to guide you to be factual in your
rantings. Well, at least you admitted the Oracle deal was a good one,
that must have hurt.
Now, I see what the rest of your argument entails for EMC domination
of NAS:
1. Give away hardware, try to recoup with software
2. Seed IP4700 to Symmetrix installed base
That's cool, it's a limited market, but the installed base is a good
place to start. You have avoided answering these questions:
1. Why doesn't EMC benchmark with RAID "ON" for the Symmetrix, or Celerra
or the IP-4700? Network Appliance, Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM and even
Auspex benchmark with RAID "ON", what's the problem?
2. Why doesn't EMC management want to go head-to-head against NTAP?
If I were EMC and really had superior products, I'd want to do this.
These things bother me the most about EMC and why I give NTAP
a bigger proportion of my storage investment than EMC. EMC had the
perfect opportunity at the IP4700 introduction to choose a configuration
that was exactly the same as NTAP's: RAM, disks, controllers etc. and
show their superiority.... they didn't. |
