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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (103)	2/19/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: bob gauthier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Teflon: In what way is NTAP different from Procom's offering. I just don't see anything special in this technology to prevent quick duplication by other players. Bob Gauthier ___Procom To Roll Out Network-Attached Storage Devices___ Procom Technology Inc. next week will begin shipping the NetForce 2000 and NetForce 2200 network-attached storage devices. These new systems -- along with the NetForce 2500 and 2600 network-attached storage (NAS) products, due next quarter -- are designed for ease of administration and use, offering a setup procedure that Procom says takes just minutes to complete. The higher-end 2500 and 2600 systems will also provide continuous data availability. The 2000, in a 180-Gbyte configuration, is priced at $35,000. The 2200 will store as much as 900 Gbytes of data, for $148,000. All the new units have proprietary software that lets them support very large files via a journaling file system, which also captures data at the time of a crash and can later reconstruct it. Because the 2500 and 2600 units will be equipped with dual controllers that failover to each other in less than three seconds, customers gain high-availability benefits, too. The 2500 stores 900 Gbytes for between $100,000 and $180,000. The 2600, with a 1.8- terabyte capacity, is priced at $201,000 to $360,000. Like other NAS devices, the new NetForce storage servers can connect to existing system infrastructures anywhere on the network, and support multiple protocols for access to Windows NT or Unix files. NAS systems can also perform better than general-purpose servers because they are optimized for data input and output. -- Martin J. Garvey For more on NAS, see "NAS Finally Makes Its Mark"