Andre tried to add.... Thanks Harvey for taking this initiative. I will share
what I can. Basically there is new SPAM legislation (Bill C-28 aka CASL) in
Canada and we are ramping up to start enforcing the legislation. The CRTC is
setting up an evidence lab from scratch so we are starting from nothing. We
have already purchased Servers, Switches, Cabling but nothing storage related
yet. We will need approx. 200TB of storage as we will be getting data feeds
from several different sources, spam complaints, malware databases, etc..
Basically we can get as many samples as we can handle. We figure 20TB for the
SAN portion which we will utilise for a database and for quickly searching
through data and the rest will be a NAS that won’t require the same level of
performance. We have a bunch of Mac laptops/desktops and will be using Virtual
images locally on those. We also bought or are in the process of buying ESX in
order to be able to run several different environments to test the malware,
etc... We need to get setup ASAP and being part of Canadian government there
are a lot of procurement rules. We want to fast track this and purchase from
the Standing Offers. We have the choice between these 6 vendors: IBM, Hitachi,
EMC, HP, NetApp and Storageflex. What I would like is peoples experiences with
these vendors for example: · Did they deliver as promised? · Were there hidden
costs? · Do you have problems with the hardware? · Do you regret buying from
them? · How is the support? · How easy is the management interface? · How many
FTE’s manage your Mass storage? Anything you can tell me about these vendors
will be helpful. Thanks all for your time! ________________________________
Andre Gregoire Senior Enforcement Officer Electronic Commerce Enforcement
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
[email protected] Telephone 819-953-6972 Government of Canada
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