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Technology Stocks : EMC How high can it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pirate_200 who wrote (13487)	11/16/2001 4:15:36 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

You're a waste of time, Pirate, because you're lazy. You don't even know what a log-structured file system is so how can you know the strengths and weaknesses of that type of file system. If you can't even do that then how can you hope to understand the hybrid SAN and NAS products that are already shipping from the likes of EMC and IBM. These hybrids are the reason why IDC and Gartner created new unifying categories. IDC uses NIS while Gartner/DataQuest uses FAS (Fabric Attached Storage) for SAN, NAS and hybrid SAN/NAS. If you don't bother to understand the pragmatic concepts behind those hybrid SAN and NAS products then how can you keep yourself from arguing in circles and looking for conspiracies in overlaps? To your mind, that overlap is double-counting because WAFL is cheap and disruptive ergo NTAP will always have the greatest market share if only other companies don't cheat, if only customers give them a chance, if only pigs could fly etcetera etcetera. Since your mind tends to choke over the mere thought of EMC, why don't you look closely at IBM's SANergy product or the Sistina Distributed File System (Linux-based) that IBM recently licensed in order to understand why large companies are starting to demand hybrid SAN and NAS products. Then maybe just maybe you'll realize how stupid you sound fixating on the overlap created by hybrid SAN and NAS products. The fact still remains that NTAP doesn't have a SAN strategy. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. That's why they're losing market share.