Am 24. Jul, 2000 schwäzte Barnett, Blake so:
> During my work for legato in their High Availability department, there was a
> lot of talk about these boxes. Most of it was "I sure wish our software
> supported these things." They do some pretty nifty things, and can simplify
> the life of any datacenter admin.
>
> But the industry leader is EMC, bar-none. They are at least 3 years ahead
> of the competition, and if you can afford a netapp, then a symetrix(sp)
> can't be too far off from your budget. And let's face it, when the stock
> market ranks a companies stock at #1, you have to think they are doing
Um, #1 stock doesn't impress me. Lot's of #1s that got there by taking
Mr. Bailey's saying[1] to heart.
> something right. Their ESN (enterprise storage network) systems are truly
> amazing. I'd really suggest comparing what netapp has to offer to EMC.
When buying something like this it is a good idea to compare several
vendors. I think big ones are EMC, NetApp, Auspex and StorageTek. There
are also a couple of companies advertising in the Linux Journal and we
have the companies that buy OEM stuff from local company MicroTest.
ciao,
der.hans
[1] There's a sucker born every minute.
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