Here is a very detailed description of a large SAN. Talk about alphabet soup................
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This caught my eye. SUNW has a lot of leverage. STK will want to work well with ANCR switches?
"About three-quarters of our systems are front-ended by Sun systems," says StorageTek's Hinton.
To formalize that relationship, Sun and StorageTek announced a partnership in mid-August that lets Sun sell tape libraries from StorageTek, while StorageTek will offer disk subsystems from Sun. Bonner's network storage is all Clariion disk subsystems marketed by StorageTek, but that relationship may change since StorageTek's main competitor, EMC, just bought Data General, parent company of Clariion.
Of course, whatever happens with Data General, StorageTek will be part of Bonner's network for quite a while.
"We have high confidence in their products and service," says Bonner. "With two tape silos, I can add up to 400 terabytes of storage. There are options to move up to higher-throughput storage if necessary, all with StorageTek."
Which is why for Bonner and the IT staff at Mirage Resorts, installing a SAN is as close as you can get to a sure bet in Las Vegas. And it certainly has been a bet worth taking.
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Sun this week will introduce its "information appliance" architecture at the Enterprise Computing Forum in New York. Sun also is expected to unveil a dedicated consulting service. |
