NetApp is pleased with its performance in the NLANR bake-off and are sharing our results with customers and potential customers under NDA. We have decided not to publicly release our results at this time because of the late withdrawal from the bake-off by the other major caching vendors (Cisco and Inktomi). Network Appliance does not want to disclose detailed performance numbers to our competitors without having access to their results. Based on past experience we believe that competitors are likely to compare apples to oranges and selectively quote our results as it suits their requirements.

We believe that Polygraph is a good start towards developing a realistic caching benchmark, particularly because of its emphasis on response time and hit rates. We support the Polygraph benchmark and will continue to work with NLANR towards developing it further. Our immediate goal is to work with NLANR and our competitors to ensure broader participation in the next semi-annual bake-off. In the meantime we are encouraging our customers to conduct private benchmarks using Polygraph.

On behalf of the whole NetCache team ... -- Karl Swartz - Technical Marketing Engineer Network Appliance Work: kls@netapp.com http://www.netapp.com/ Home: kls@chicago.com http://www.chicago.com/~kls/