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To: HDC who wrote (1184)	7/13/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Mehitabel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Hi HDC! Your excerpts about NTAP and HP products are tantalizing, but the url takes you to a page that doesn't exist, and can't find the article from the home page. Could you please repost the url?

To: HDC who wrote (1184)	7/13/1999 11:25:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 10934

HDC, your link did not work, but let me reply to the exerpts: "Performance of the (Network Appliance) F760 was blazingly fast. It was at least five times faster than any of the other NAS servers we tested, and it barely broke a sweat with 30 clients beating on it." NTAP is the performance leader and its architecture will keep it there until someone comes up with a better file system than WAFL and a faster OS than ONTAP. NTAP will be able to update its hardware platform with the latest CPUs from INTC or DEC (Alpha) with little effort. NTAP will be able to implement the best FC storage subsytems with little effort. "much to our dismay, many vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., declined to submit products, explaining that their products wouldn't be available until the second half of this year." HP has been re-branding third party SAN subsystems for years. It will be interesting to see what their NAS offering will be. I don't think they will offer a product that has any appeal outside HP's own loyal, but shrinking, customer base. Same for SUN. However, these vendors' endorsement of the NAS model will benefit NTAP in the long run.