NAS and EMC. (Response time).(Letter to the Editor)

Enterprise Systems Journal, November, 2001

Nice use of the surfing imagery in Jon Toigo's August column ("Storage's Endless Summer"). Unfortunately, I need to point out an inaccuracy in his story. Jon says EMC unveiled its first NAS products a year ago. In fact, we introduced our first NAS product, EMC Celerra, in 1996. It's true we announced a new NAS product in 2000, the CLARiiON IP4700.

Ken McDonnell EMC Corporation Public Relations mcdonnell_ken@emc.com

I am aware of EMC's NAS offering, though I confess to having gotten my date of introduction wrong in an earlier column. That error has been corrected. It does not change the point, often expressed by EMC in my interviews with them, that NAS is a Tinkertoy compared to Big Iron arrays, and that the latter are required for the heavy lifting of...

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