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To: JRH who wrote (792)	3/29/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Respond to of 10934

>I recently read an article in PC Week that discussed S-A-N vs. N-A-S storage solutions. My question is regarding NTAP's competition with EMC and another one mentioned in the article, Auspex. Does EMC focus primarily on the S-A-N's, and therefore is not a direct competitor of NTAP's? i'll defer your query to DS (downsouth) as he's the man on this thread. technically, however, EMC does have an appliance product dubbed "celerra," but all indications are that NTAP is kicking their ass. in this department anyway, and long ago left auspex in the dust. here's an EMC appliance-related press release and background info on celerra: Thomson Speeds Development of Advanced TV Products with EMC Network-Attached Storage EMC Celerra Provides Thomson Engineers with Dramatically Improved Availability of Mission-Critical NFS Data December 28, 1998 emc.com New Products Fastest, High-Capacity Network File Server Companies as diverse as BMW, Mannesmann, Honda R&D Co., and Goldman Sachs already know that the payoff from EMC's Celerra File Server includes unprecedented levels of availability and performance and streamlined management. They're repeat customers of EMC's dedicated network file server, which supports NFSv2 and NFSv3 as well as a variety of network connections such as 10/100BaseT, FDDI, and ATM. The newest version of Celerra File Server provides twice the performance of its predecessor, making it the fastest, high-capacity file server available today. emc.com

To: JRH who wrote (792)	3/30/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Does EMC focus primarily on the S-A-N's, and therefore is not a direct competitor of NTAP's? Exactly right. EMC's architecture does not consolidate a customer's server population. You still have to have a general purpose (NT/UNIX) server attached to the network, with the EMC storage system on a SCSI port behind the server. NTAP's storage system attaches to the network itself, taking data serving chores off the general purpose servers (NT/UNIX), but behaving via the NFS and CIFS file standards as though the NTAP box is a UNIX and an NT server. The customer can avoid buying SUN/H-P/Intel servers, decrease response time, as the servers do what they do best (compute) and the filers do what they do best (serve data). Another big difference: NTAP uses fibre channel controllers and disk drives, provides clustering, soft failover, and remote mirroring. EMC doesn't.