Ravi Parthasarathy

Ravi ParthasarathyNetwork Appliance

Ravi Parthasarathy, senior futures strategist at NetApp, said the company will continue to expand its support matrix."It's not a technical challenge to support the other storage vendors," he said."It's more of a business/support challenge."He said a solid support relationship must be established between NetApp and a given storage vendor to ensure "good service for our customers."
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"They say, 'I don't necessarily want high performance, but I want the high availability of Fibre Channel,'" Parthasarathy said.
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Parthasarathy said the goal is "making ATA drives enterprise-class so they can be used for primary applications, as opposed to nearline or backup."

"Some customers want to see everything as a single tree, and others don't," says NetApp product manager Ravi Parthasarathy.