On 03/19/99 19:26:02 you wrote:
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>Hey Toasters -
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>How about:
>[List of things snipped]
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>Please excuse the plug, but I couldn't resist.
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>/Christian Adams
>Systems Engineer
>South San Francisco, CA
>EMC Corporation
Er, I assume this means your claiming EMC can do these things
and Netapp can't?
Netapp can do just about all of the things you mention that
anyone would *want* to do.
They don't do RAID in hardware, but that's because they do
RAID-4 which is better than RAID-5. And they still beat you
on performance. Why would you want them to beat you even
easier?
When EMC can provide both NFS and CIFS support in a NAS box, on
the same filesystem, same files, with coherent locking, which
full support of all NT permissions, with a RAID level as easily
expandable as RAID-4, with your own OS (not on the back end
of a UNIX server), with better throughput *and* response time
than Netapp (with published SFS results), for a *lower* price,
email me.
Until then, go pick on Sun.
Bruce