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Technology Stocks : Network Appliance -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg Hull who wrote (4078)	8/21/2000 9:44:57 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

Thanks, Greg. I noticed that Mark seems high on NAS, saying that the quick implementation of NAS meets an important need. Let me point out something that may sound like EMC bashing, but is intended only to highlight a weakness in their NAS architecture. With EMC, the NAS product is really a front end to the Symmetrix SAN product. So to implement NAS with EMC, one must implement the more complex-to-install Symmetrix product. Thus the quick implementation criteria does not fit with EMC. With SUN, implementation is faster than implementation of a server and RAID, because the systems are pre-configured in the factory. But what you have in the end is still a SUN server with RAID attached. Cost of ownership after installation will be the same as a Sun server with RAID attached.