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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (12548)	4/2/2001 1:46:39 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17183

....The SiliconServer has a hybrid architecture with a NAS front-end and a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) back-end that enables scalability to 200TB. (The architecture has a physical limit of 2 petabytes.) There are two separate data paths for storage (see diagram). Each path can clock 1Gbps, and the server can read and write data at 1Gbps in either direction. Just like Symmetrix/Celerra.<g> That's not surprising. Celerra -- a cluster of 14 independent Pentium-based file servers with one unified code image -- was developed partly out of the video and file server technology that EMC acquired from Digital in 1994. BlueArc's CEO, Enrico Pesatori, was the General Manager of Digital's Computer Systems Division before he joined Tandem. As you know, both Digital and Tandem were later acquired by Compaq. IMO, I think they're better off if they just sell or license their NAS appliance/gateway instead of having to validate not only their NAS front-end but their SAN back-end too. EMC left a void in the marketplace when it acquired CrosStor, whose embedded file system was licensed by the likes of HWP, Auspex and Connex.