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To: riposte who wrote (5208)	11/20/2000 7:35:46 PM
From: Stefano	Respond to of 10934

Mention of NTAP: redherring.com Stefano

To: riposte who wrote (5208)	11/20/2000 7:44:11 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 10934

Experiments in the SAN-Box Thanks very much. A comparison of NAS and SAN is just what I need after reading DS' excellent NTAP primer.

To: riposte who wrote (5208)	11/20/2000 10:15:03 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 10934

Thanks for the URL, Steve. Do keep in mind that it is not NAS that makes NTAP's products a disruptive innovation. It is their WAFL file layout which dis-integrates the file system from the OS of the client or the App server and provides a much faster, simpler, more reliable file system than the gen purpose file systems of Windows and Unix. NTAP's ONTAP OS manages that WAFL file system with none of the overhead of a gen purpose OS. All of NTAP's innovations are built on the WAFL file system and simply cannot be duplicated on the Windows and UNIX file systems. Control of the OS let's NTAP innovate such things as cross-platform (Unix/Windows) security mapping and layer on content management software and web caching very efficiently and with new innovations that they could not do if they did not have control of the OS and the file system. DAFS/VI will also re-enforce the disruptive innovation of NTAP. SUNW, HWP, EMC, DELL, CPQ and others are all offering NAS products. None perform as well as NTAP because it is not NAS that makes NTAP formidable--its the NTAP platform upon which NTAP's NAS was built. As Auspex. They were the first significant NAS product company. NTAP punched them so fast and hard they did not know what was happening until it was over.