Introduction: For the enterprise that stores to those wanting that NAS is bought this year, begin to turn white-hot as the competition between the manufacturer, they may hope when autumn: HP claims it plans to take offensive model the market that strategy is entered and challenges NetApp company.

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DoSTOR memory analyses international reported on January 21: For the enterprise that stores to those wanting that NAS is bought this year, begin to turn white-hot as the competition between the manufacturer, they may hope when autumn: HP claims it plans to take offensive model the market that strategy is entered and challenges NetApp company.

HP StorageWorksNAS stores Michael Callahan of technician of banquet of career radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries says: "We own good compositive part: For example the component of occupation standard and group software, make high-end NAS client OK and convenient undertake administrative and have good reliability. Make high-end NAS client OK and convenient undertake administrative and have good reliability..

He complements: "We are having more thorough investment in our core technology domain, and our plan competes active and actively with NetApp. And our plan competes active and actively with NetApp..

He says to bought PolyServe with 200 million dollar last year in Feburary is the key that HP be determined enters high-end NAS market. Before be bought this HP had maintained cooperative relationship of two years with PolyServe, and went to the technical conformity of PolyServe in the HP in this paragraph of time in product of StorageWorks EVA FileServices.

The NAS memory that the applied process of PolyServe can leave Windows and Linux environment undertakes incorporating mixing fictitious change, and the hardware of compatible occupation standard. This software can allow a document or database server is incorporated the memory pool that shares into.

Besides offerring group application program, polyServe still offerred high-powered amalgamative platform to use the database of HP technology with conformity for HP.

Callahan points out HP in low end the market has powerful market competition ability, and he thinks the NAS strategy of HP, the group storage facility that includes to offer to include all place to need package, can make HP becomes the competitor " that a " cuts a figure.

Callahan says: "We will spread out intense competitive " with NetApp.

Of HP and PolyServe trade make HP OK store NAS the technology is outspread to the server, created Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway from this (gateway of group of company document service) . Next HP upgraded this software in order to support a memory and filestore, roll out service of file of StorageWorks EVA File Services, this software is bound to be in the SAN array of HP.

But the view according to the public figure watching inside a course of study, after all HP can strive for client of NAS of how many high end still is an interrogation at present. The IT that studies company IIIuminata is advanced advisory division John Webster says to think, the competition that strives for a client must be to be based on client demand and requirement.
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