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To: stockgator who wrote (3502)	6/15/2000 8:46:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 10934

It seems to me that the SAN or NAS has a lot to do with softwares for managing the storage, who ever has the better software would win the fist fight. Am I correct? You may be correct, but I cannot agree with such a limited criterion. A storage system is made up of a lot of functional components, one of which is storage management. The definition of "storage management" needs to be fleshed out, as well. As with most complex systems, the winner will be determined on a sale by sale basis based on that customers criteria. Sometimes speed is most important; scalability; ease of admin; support of heterogenous hosts; etc. SUN, EMC, and NetApp have different strengths even in the real of storage management. Sun's software is not deliverable yet. EMC has superior capabilities in allocating and managing space in a large storage farm. NTAP has superior capabilities in obviating many of the storage management tasks of legacy systems and sharing storage farms across, between, and among heterogenous hosts.