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To: ggamer who wrote (38119)	1/18/2001 8:39:54 PM
From: Seldom_Blue	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

What are your thoughts and if you agree what storage company will benefit the most from this move. Asking DS what storage company will benefit the most from this? Why don't you ask if California needs electricity? <g> All kidding aside, I think streaming video will be really big for the future. Of course that is music to us all who have invested in NTAP and EMC. There are so many applications for videos, from training to entertainment to video conference, etc. Storage is definitely a good sector to be for the next ten years. I am very optimistic about this sector. Seldom Blue

To: ggamer who wrote (38119)	1/19/2001 11:07:57 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Distance learning (etraining) is big, no doubt. I haven't seen any market studies, so I don't know its relative potential in terms of $ or $torage. In an enterprise, NTAP's end to end content management fits the bill nicely, moving the video right into the branch office where the trainee is working and streaming off the filer, then taking the overhead off the branch office filer when completed--with no human intervention.

To: ggamer who wrote (38119)	1/19/2001 11:39:43 AM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 54805

netapp.com Ereo Selects Network Appliance™ Storage Solutions to Support Image-Based Internet Search Engine Technology Sunnyvale, CA - January 17, 2001 -- Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP), a leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today announced that Ereo, Inc. has deployed Network Appliance's multi-terabyte storage solutions to support its demanding and fast growing storage environment. Ereo, a provider of the first outsourced, rich media search engine is scaling its image database at the rate of 36GB per day, and expects to reach approximately 6TB of data when it becomes available later this quarter for users of the Excite@Home portal, Ereo's first worldwide customer. Ereo is powering its content- and graphics-rich database with the Network Appliance enterprise-level storage solution, including the new NetApp® F840 filer and Snapshot™ software, which performs frequent online, read-only file backups that enable complete database restoration quickly and easily. "The graphics intensity of our search engine solution, coupled with the high demands from the server farm, requires a very scalable storage solution," said Yancy Fox, vice president of operations, Ereo. "Network Appliance storage appliances can easily scale to handle traffic, and its solutions will assist Ereo in meeting the performance goal of returning a response within 10 milliseconds of receiving a request." In addition to scalability, performance was also a key criterion in selecting Network Appliance. The NetApp appliances store Ereo's data, which reside in the form of thumbnail images and URLs and serve it to Ereo's servers that process search requests. Based on Ereo's performance testing, the NetApp storage solutions can handle up to 15,000 requests per minute, thereby making them the highest-performing solution Ereo considered. Ereo is a participant in Network Appliance's "Powered by Network Appliance" program, a branding initiative designed to foster business development and enhance the exposure of companies with e-business driven strategies. About Ereo Ereo provides the first rich media search engine to incorporate images and allow Web users to use these techniques as the primary criteria for their search. Set to redefine the way people search online, Ereo's industry-first, rich media implementation utilizes images (with audio and video to follow) to help Web users find what they are looking for faster and easier than today's traditional, text-based search methodologies. For e-businesses, Ereo's technology provides a significant competitive edge by enabling improved customer retention and increased ease with which customers can find and purchase items on their sites. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Ereo is a privately held member of the successful iBelay (www.ibelay.com) family of Internet-based, early stage companies. With more than 35 employees, Ereo's management team brings extensive experience in Internet-focused and high-tech companies. For more information, visit www.ereo.com or contact Laura Love at 720.929.0901, ext. 3708. For information on how to submit images to Ereo's WorldWide image database, email worldwide@ereo.com or visit www.ereo.com.