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To: DownSouth who wrote (3362)	5/19/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: Gregory Rasp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

DS or anyone else. Can you comment on the following. Video on Demand is a growing industry. Essentially consumers will be able to access movies whenever they wish. Rollouts have begun in several US cities and in Hawaii recently. There are several competing computer systems to distribute the data streams. These are massive files. Currently many servers are needed per site to handle the anticipated load. A comment was made on one of the VOD threads that each server would need to have each movie in a large storage device. The point was that companies that have faster servers (requiring fewer servers per site) would need less data storage. That assumes a filer to data appliance ratio of 1:1. Wouldn't this scenario be perfect for storing data in a farm of NTAP products and having the filers access this single data site rather than redundantly reproducing the storage for each filer? GR