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NAS gateway products for 2004

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What gateway products, if any, will we see coming into the 2004 market?

IBM has announced the Gateway 500G product that is now becoming available, Network Appliance is qualifying additional storage system attachments for their gateways called gfilers and EMC just announced the NS700G gateway product. Other vendors such as HP have gateways and regularly update their product families.

Randy Kerns

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This was last published in February 2004

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