Hello everyone - 

EMC, like every other vendor in Gartner Groups 'Enterprise Disk-Based 
Backup/Recovery' report, participates in this process with Gartner. We 
talk directly with the Gartner analysts about the business at multiple 
levels (product, technology, sales, marketing, etc.) and we fill out a 
lengthy questionnaire on product capabilities and business. In addition to 
interviews with the vendors Garnter also includes points of view 
consolidated from their subscriber base. Even though the report is dated 
January 2011, their information collection process took place in Sept/Oct 
of 2010...A full year ago. 

The statement that Yaron has accurately captured is actually accompanied 
with Garnter's guidance to view NetWorker in light of 'focus on 
integration' and 'an evolving archtectural roadmap'.   

Many of you know that NetWorker's deduplication capabilities are 
fundamentally tied to integation with EMC's Avamar and/or Data Domain 
technologies. That is indeed our business strategy and Garnter seems to 
reflect that fairly in their report. 

And as some of you know, the NetWorker roadmap has evolved in ways that 
Gartner was not able to consider in the 2010 time frame, including 
evolution in the NetWorker archtecture. This evolution resutls from 
significant investment in core NetWorker development that will enable 
NewWorker to continue supporting enterprise performance and scalability 
growth for years to come. 

With great respect to the many knowlegdeable Gartner analysts that I have 
worked with over the years, the Gartner report was written without this 
critical insight. 

Best regards,
Mark

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