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To: Road Walker who wrote (12405)	3/7/2001 2:08:46 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17183

Time for EMC to lap the competition.....again. searchStorage: You've also mentioned the emerging area of forensic data. Could you explain what that is and what it could mean for the future of storage? Peterson: Sure, this is another field that I think is real interesting. We call it the forensic data security field. The notion of forensics is that you have a legal audit trail of all changes, and at the same time you have a high-availability way to move to any point in time. Thus, you have a secure environment. Because security's broken -- as it's defined today by the network world -- it's only access and intruder and they both fail. Damage occurs. Corruption happens. All these other things happen. So, you need this ability to go to a known good point in time and roll forward to change. You need the ability to trap all changes so you can actually do an audit trail and know what happened and who did it. That product is coming into the marketplace with another company we're working with and have been working with for a while. Let's just put it this way. *EMC loves it. They are all over it.* searchStorage: Can you give us more details about when we could expect to see these types of products come to market? Peterson: Forensic products will be on the market by the end of Q1. The company pioneering that is Delta-Tek Research. On the software side of AIN development, PRISA Networks is the leader. On the hardware side [of AIN], it's really up for grabs still. Yes, the Brocades of the world will want to shift in this direction because they'll have the resources, etc. But, there are some really interesting new start-ups that are coming into that corner. There's a spinoff out of 3Com. There are some other people coming up. It will be real interesting to see where that goes. searchStorage: Lots will be happening in the first quarter. Are they pushing to get these products out, or are they right on schedule? Peterson: Let's just say that you're going to see EMC's initial launch in that timeframe. *EMC is a market-maker. When EMC declares a new methodology, the world follows.* searchstorage.techtarget.com