Well, after getting some sense beat into my head on this list over my question of which SAN I should buy, instead of what my D/R strategy is, I'm dropping back and trying to evaluate what my NEEDS are rather than what's "cool" or "nifty" or "sexy." However, as part of my poorly executed design strategy (which I am putting on the back burner until I get some help figuring out what my needs are) I did look at Hitachi.
After I get a D/R consultant to help me figure out what my needs are, I plan, if a SAN is part of the solution suggested by the consultant, to go back and re-investigate all the options again, including Hitachi, EMC, Equallogic, LeftHand, etc. :-) From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Consultants Answering your question. have you considered Hitachi? On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: Dude... On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:49 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: I got a call from an IBM reseller in the region wanting to sell me a SAN. I advised that I had decided to step back and look for a consultant to help me figure out what my needs are. At that point the sales droid advised that they were also consultants. My first instinct is to tell them to go jump, as it seems like it would be a huge conflict of interest and they are probably going to tell me I need to buy a SAN, specifically an IBM SAN. What is the opinion of you folks on the list about hiring consultants? Do you worry about conflict of interest such as this or do you just hire someone? I'm tempted to just hire one of the fellow list members (assuming I can get authorization) who offered their services, as they seem to be *just* D/R consultants and are not going to have an axe to grind. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
