HOMEAPPLICATIONS     Commentary  Should High Performance Storage Mean High Cost Storage?      Geoff Barrall, BlueArc Corporation   Telecommunications Time critical messaging environment   Billing Reconciliation and rendering   Video caching distribution       Financial Time critical transaction response time   Increase Transaction processing   Decrease customer response time in online transactions     Server Based Computing Consolidate servers and increase the number of thin clients   Increase reliability of servers   Decrease server latency       Exchange Mail Servers Increase reliability of servers   Increase transaction speed for large volume of users   Increase throughput for large servers     DataBase Applications Decrease latency in response   Eliminate high CACHE costs   Speed Text searches and streaming video to real time       Web Services Facilitate real time business processes   Integrate multiple platforms through high speed storage   Eliminate hardware deployment cost