What is NetApp's strategic direction?

Asaro: NetApp offers any protocol to its storage, including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and FC -- which was the smart thing to do. They were one of the first to offer SATA drives, giving users another tier of storage. NetApp positioned its products for primary, archival and B2D. And they have shared their future vision of a storage grid -- a single pool of storage that has different tiers of storage and the intelligence to manage that data seamlessly. And since NetApp understands file systems, they realize what they can do to achieve this through this level of intelligence. Further, having a single platform that could easily manage the various data within an enterprise gives them a real competitive advantage. Kerns: NetApp will integrate the Spinnaker technology to provide grid storage in the future. They will be one of the early significant players in the market. As stated earlier, they are expanding their breadth of market coverage and are aggressively moving higher into the enterprise. Where ...  more