With respects to scale-out NAS, NetApp was seven to eight years late (depending on how one counts the dates) with delivering scale-out capabilities to its platform.

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Multiply that by the number of engines (tens of thousands), flights (hundreds of thousands), and then similar machines (hundreds of thousands), and the scale of the data stream moves into the same zetabyte class of data flows Cisco already counts in the existing Internet.

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Picower had experienced a smaller-scale fraud that operated in a similar fashion some 30 years before Madoff pleaded guilty on all counts.

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