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To: riposte who wrote (10045)	4/19/2002 11:06:21 PM
From: BirdDog	Read Replies (2) of 10934

NTAP is competing for all storage markets now. If you read in their end to end total storage systems: They paint a picture of all storage linked together. Now please correct me if I am wrong. As I understand it, NTAP has the ability to connect just about all types of storage together. Even the huge direct attached storage systems. Now can you imagine what that can do for a company? It will free up archives (dead storage) all over the place. A company will be able to take that old data and simply archive it on tapes or whatever they want, then put it in a vault or cave. A company will be able to have one archive site for all their storage systems. They will be able to move around data anywhere they want. They will be able to free up a supercomputer's direct attached storage quickly and devote that system to another project or whatever they want. Or load another project over to the supercomputer's direct attached storage from one groups storage system in another part of the world. There are all kinds of fantastic possibilities with connecting everything together. And as far as I know, NTAP is the only company who can do that now. EMC has talked about connecting SAN islands together...but that is only part of a companies system. Nobody else, besides NTAP have developed connecting everything together. And at the heart of this entire system is NTAP's filers banked together. This is what I mean about approaching "total storage market". AGAIN...please correct me if I am wrong!? Also on WAFL. It is much more than simply Snapshots. WAFL is what enabled NTAP to create a viable NAS filer in the first place. The theory existed. But nobody created a decent one. Even EMC passed on NAS and concentrated on SAN...why?...because it is much easier to do in the first place. NTAP is a brilliant company. All you have to do is look at all the new innovations they keep coming out with. They are a company of inventors. They don't focus on inventing new hardware, just how to use the hardware. Then they develop software to control the hardware. They are also brilliant in that they focus on the software...that is where the money is...hardware keeps becoming a commodity over and over again. They keep thinking way ahead of everyone else. And I think they may very well dominate the storage market in the future because of it. BirdDog@Prairie.com

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