NetApp has become the second major vendor to introduce an iSCSI-based storage product. IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM), you will recall, rolled out the iSCSI-based TotalStorage IP Storage 200i in mid-2001, but Big Blue stopped "actively selling" it last year after it failed to attract interest (see IBM Ditches iSCSI Box).
Will NetApp fare any better, now? Brown notes that "some vendors jumped the gun on the spec." But other players -- including NetApp's chief rival, EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) -- believe it is still too early for iSCSI storage.
"The way we're seeing the market play out, in 2003, there's not going to be a huge uptake of iSCSI," says Paul Ross, EMC's director of storage network marketing. He says EMC has iSCSI-based storage systems in its labs but adds that "we're not going to bring a product to market until people want to buy it."
Still, NetApp's swift move to support iSCSI now that it has been ratified is seen as a benediction by others in the IP storage space. "It's important to have a large vendor like NetApp validate the market," says Peter Hayden, CEO of EqualLogic Inc., which is building its own iSCSI-based array (see EqualLogic Draws Bank's Interest).
In other news, NetApp rolled out a new model of NearStore, its disk-based backup system, which doubles the capacity of the original. The NearStore R150 provides 24 TBytes per module and twice the backup throughput (up to 430 GBytes per hour) for around $240,000 (see NetApp Upgrades NearStore and NetApp's Backup Plan).
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