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To: DownSouth who wrote (579)	1/29/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Winston Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

<Lately, news about EMC almost always mentions NTAP as well.> excellent point. totally agreed. dell reports on feb. 16, ntap, 17. dell's move into storage will give ntap's name a lot of exposure. more and more people will research into this company.

To: DownSouth who wrote (579)	1/30/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: Winston Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

do you know when and where ntap will hold their share holders' meeting this year? I really want to go. I called ntap ir dept. haven't gotten a call back yet.

To: DownSouth who wrote (579)	1/31/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: riposte	Respond to of 10934

A Delicate Balance This article, on load-balancing, contains lots of excellent information on the subject, and includes several references to NTAP's products, and those of their competition. In the print issue, at the end of the article, on page 69, is a nice full page advertisement by NetworkAppliance. Steve A Delicate Balance Load-balancing switches and routers may be a good option if your company needs the kind of scalability that clustering doesn't offer yet By Logan Harbaugh It's an axiom in the PC server world that you can never have too much capacity. Disk space, memory, and available processing power have a way of disappearing faster than even experienced administrators count on. Applications such as Web servers, File Transfer Protocol servers, and database servers can quickly expand beyond the limits of the Intel platform or any single platform. One way to surpass the limitations of a single server is clustering. Unfortunately, clustering on the Intel platform, using network operating systems such as Windows NT Server and NetWare, is not yet scalable. The two-node clusters offered on these platforms can't handle more of a load than a single server--instead, they offer failover to allow applications on a failed server to move over to the other server. [REMAINING TEXT DELETED...] FULL TEXT @: informationweek.com

To: DownSouth who wrote (579)	1/31/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: riposte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Seagate Storage Networking There was a two page ad by Seagate in the January 25th issue of InformationWeek magazine. Some of the ad's content says: Disc drives that know their contents. Disc drives that know when to back themselves up. Disc drives that know there's a problem before it happens. Disc drives that know how to manage themselves. Sounds a bit like they're taking a look at EMC and NTAP's turf's, doesn't it? Seagate has a nice area of their website on the subject of storage networking. Check it out @: seagate.com Steve