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To: JRH who wrote (792)	3/30/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) of 10934

Does EMC focus primarily on the S-A-N's, and therefore is not a direct competitor of NTAP's? Exactly right. EMC's architecture does not consolidate a customer's server population. You still have to have a general purpose (NT/UNIX) server attached to the network, with the EMC storage system on a SCSI port behind the server. NTAP's storage system attaches to the network itself, taking data serving chores off the general purpose servers (NT/UNIX), but behaving via the NFS and CIFS file standards as though the NTAP box is a UNIX and an NT server. The customer can avoid buying SUN/H-P/Intel servers, decrease response time, as the servers do what they do best (compute) and the filers do what they do best (serve data). Another big difference: NTAP uses fibre channel controllers and disk drives, provides clustering, soft failover, and remote mirroring. EMC doesn't.

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