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To: chmang who wrote (37792)	1/11/2001 1:46:27 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 54805

...surrounded by EMC engineers who write microcode to let these servers speak to their disks... I understand that NTAP doesn't need to do all this connectivity investment. Is that correct? That is correct. The interface to filers is via the protocols set by MSFT (CIFS) and SUNW (NFS). Because EMC is channel connected, they have to get into the nuts and bolts of each hardware vendors I/O system. Do you see NTAP publishing its WAFL interfaces for its industry partners? I haven't heard of it. The only need for publishing WAFL interfaces was for the purpose of backup device vendors. NTAP did that by starting the NDMP coalition years ago. That gave the backup vendors a set of standards to interface to and those standards were adopted by a host of storage companies. Other than that, CIFS, NFS, and HTTP are the interfaces to WAFL. (OPEN/PROPRIETARY)