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To: J Fieb who wrote (27483)	7/14/2000 9:19:38 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Where does EMC come in on this issue? Maybe DAFS and Iband will fit together well? I don't know about EMC's position on DAFS but it was a member of the VI consortium along with Orca, which NTAP acquired for its VI + DAFS technology. As you pointed out, Release 1.0 of VI has been gathering dust since 1997. DAFS is fairly new and NTAP seems to be pushing it as the de facto industry standard, but Veritas may have something to say about this with its GFS (Global File System), which I would assume also builds on the VI open standard developed by Intel, Microsoft and Compaq. General purpose file systems like NFS and CIFS will probably always have a disadvantage over limited purpose file systems like DAFS (and WAFL) because of the overhead from having to provide backward compatibility. It's going to be interesting to track the response to DAFS and GFS especially with Microsoft carefully unveiling its clean-sheet XML-centric .Net initiative. A few years ago, Veritas won a high-profile contract to architect the storage network at the Microsoft campus so .Net will most likely be steeped in the best practices of the datacenter.