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To: pirate_200 who wrote (1806)	12/9/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: pirate_200	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Courtney Smith, revisted: Got some junk mail from none other than Courtney Smith today hawking his "Bull Stock" newsletter. I guess ole Courtney isn't as technically competent as we thought, he says in his PR stuff about his EMC pick: "EMC is the #1 hard drive company and the fastest grower in the entire information storage sector." Maybe I'm quibbling, but I would think that he could distinguish between a "hard drive" and a "storage server", never mind SAN, RAID, NAS etc. I guess he's maybe a financial bean-counter type rather than a technology guru.

To: pirate_200 who wrote (1806)	12/13/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

some nice forward thinking, pirate. i can't hope to answer all your queries, but regarding: >3. There's suppose to be a tripling? of storage capacity, coming soon? i do know that NTAP is looking to launch 3TB appliances beginning in the April quarter, which more than doubles the current 1.4TB maximum. the folks over at Goldman are of the opinion that "6-8 terabyte systems [are] within reach." >6. New products: one of the analyst notes alluded to some new products or software enhancements to current products, when? i believe we can expect the Snap Mirror enhancement about the same time period. management indicates that this will be "a synchronous version of Snap Mirror that reduces the lag time between production data and the copy to almost zero, offering even greater protection to real-time applications." hope this helps, -chris.