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To: tekboy who wrote (3323)	5/18/2000 7:14:00 AM
From: riposte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

SAN v. NAS Article A quick informative article, "Big things ahead for network storage", at AnchorDesk.com zdnet.com. The best part: "...the total market reaching nearly $2 billion this year and soaring to more than $10 billion by the end of 2004...". Good luck today. Steve

To: tekboy who wrote (3323)	5/18/2000 8:24:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

But online storage would be the thing that eventually (several years?) would disrupt current practices. Pressed for firms, he mentioned Driveway, X-Drive, and I-Drive (those are from quick notes scribbled between glasses of vino, so they may be off a bit). Your thoughts, in terms a carpetologist (or a policy wonk, for that matter) could understand? I'm proud of ya', boy. I have no idea what this guy was talking about. Anybody? (Was that clear enough for a wonk?)

To: tekboy who wrote (3323)	5/18/2000 11:36:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

>> I pressed him to specify what the discontinuous innovations might be that would make NAS obsolete, and he said there were three things on the distant horizon I should know about: online storage, optical storage, and fractal storage. Your new acquaintance must the the VC equivalent of a carpetologist. He's tossed out buzzwords that, as a response to your question, make no sense, and probably had no idea what you meant by a discontinuous innovation. Did you ask him if he had read the fm? Online storage allows you to use a remote site to store your data which you can later access through the internet when you want to use it. Everytime you use the <file> function SI offers, you are using a form of online storage. The provider of online storage can be using mag tape, semiconductor memory, disk drives, or any other storage technology to support this exchange. As such, they represent a market for ntap , not a technological threat to nas. Optical storage is old news. IBM and others have been trying to commercialize this high density memory technology for a decade or more, but it still appears to be years away. Even when it becomes commercially viable, it won't necessarily threaten nas. Rather, optical drives might simply displace the disk drives that are employed in nas. Fractal storage? Not a clue, but I think he may have been tossing out technobabble to get you off his case so he could enjoy his dinner. I wish I could have been there to watch you guys snowing each other <lol>. uf