"Clayton Doige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/31/2008 09:15:44 AM:
> Dell? Ack! lol :-) I went out on a real limb two years ago when we picked up our initial 25 terabytes. Equallogic was only a new startup, and already one vendor I was looking at bit the dust (stonefly). Luckily they worked out, the product is great and we couldn't be more happy. Dell forking over $1.4 billion for them was real validation that we picked a good technology. At first I wasn't thrilled with Dell taking them over, but Dell has pledged to leave them as their own entity and provided funding and financial support - just what they need to continue their product development. I had the first unit unboxed and up in 10 minutes. In another 15 I had the first server connected, a volume created, logged into and mounted on my server. Useable storage in under half an hour! It, quite frankly, is the easiest to use storage system I have ever had the pleasure of working with. It's eminently expandable - unlike systems from EMC, NetApp, HP, IBM, etc. - when you go to add storage the system scales and becomes *faster* due to it's grid-like design. There are no single head end units - no purchasing a bigger head then you initially need, and then eventually outgrowing it and having to do a forklift upgrade to keep expanding. Also, no games with add-ons. Everything is included - snapshots, replication, thin provisioning - not nickel and diming with options licenses... Here's how easy it is to manage volumes: http://www.equallogic.com/blog/2007/12/product_demo_with_jason_kwiatk.html Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
