From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: NAS: EMC vs NetApp
   Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:23:58 -0700

Greg Ercolano wrote:

Dylan Penhale wrote:

Hi guys

We looking for post production houses that use EMC NAS based storage
systems, for both 3D and 2D as we are interested to hear how they
match up against Netapp NAS systems. We realise that EMC has a strong
foot hold in SAN markets, but we like the NAS simplicity and rem
aware of GFS based technologys (such as Netapp purchase of Spinniker)
that will enable NAS systems to inherit many SAN type capabilities.

Could anyone suggest any post houses that use EMC?

    I know a few folks in town testing out EMC's Sledgehammer..

	OK, I was wrong, the eval I was thinking of was a
	MAX-T product (MAX-T.COM) called "Sledgehammer".

	The company /doing the eval/ had "EMC" in its name,
	so that crossed my wires.

	So I have no input to offer about EMC's NAS product (EMC.COM).

	I can tell you that the folks eval'ing the MAX-T/Sledgehammer
	product did the 'dd' test I normally recommend, ie:

		dd if=/dev/null of=/path/to/server/foo-`hostname`.jnk

	and I'm told it actually tested well.
	I didn't oversee the test myself, but there's some second hand info.

I believe EMC's product is Linux based,

	Strike that -- I have no idea of what EMC's core technology involves.