Weve gone from not much presence at all in the NAS market early this year, to products in June and now significant upgrades, says Chris Saul, product manager for IBMs Shark group. He said plans are underway to use the new $100 million in funding to enhance the capacity and power of these appliances even further, but he was unable to provide a roadmap for this.
Analysts were largely unimpressed by the announcements. These are small, departmental products, says Arun Taneja, senior analyst at the Enterprise Storage Group Inc. IBM needs to move upscale with its NAS product line It is nowhere near BlueArc Corp., for example, in terms of performance. He adds that it will take significantly more funding than IBM announced today, to build a product in this space.
Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch http://www.byteandswitch.com
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