To: Bruce Brown who wrote (25074 ) 5/20/2000 11:53:00 AM From: hueyone Read Replies (1) | Respond to
According to EMC they are not only the clear leader in SAN sales, but they have rapidly growing NAS sales as well. Last quarter they reported 90 million in NAS revenues versus NTAP's 151 million in quarterly NAS revenues at the time. When I asked about this report on this thread it was dismissed as misleading, but the folks on the EMC thread dismiss NTAP fans dismissal of EMC NAS sales as misleading. Message 13482574 Celerra went from $7 million in revenues in 1Q99 to $90 million in revenues in 1Q00 so it is growing faster on a sequential basis and on a percentage basis (than NTAP) if you want to use those limited forms of argumentation. The only similarity between Celerra and NTAP's file servers is the fact that both are thin storge servers designed to do only one thing very well. Celerra, however, is a thin storage server designed to work within the Symmetrix architecture so this notion that the number is somehow fudged is just plain misinformation by NTAP fans too eager to compare apples and oranges. That kind of argument is like comparing NTAP's Snapshot and its limited functionality with 4th generation Timefinder and its full-line of mission-critical functions. earlier April 25 EMC announcment: Message 13494127 April 25, 2000 - Today EMC unveiled an unprecedented suite of new products that together expand the EMC E-Infostructure, helping customers gather information from any source, grow it to any scale and accelerate their business to any speed. Launch highlights include the largest and fastest information storage system ever introduced, enhanced software enabling unbridled data movement and the expansion of the EMC Enterprise Storage Network, which now allows for Network Attached Storage to be pulled into the world of SANs.
