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Competitive Market Analysis of Leading Raid Vendors Positions Gladiator ESS As the System Offering the Highest Functionality When Compared To EMC, Clariion And Sun
ANAHEIM, Calif., -- MTI(TM) Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: MTIC) today announced the results of a December 1997 Coopers & Lybrand Competitive Market Analysis of leading RAID vendors that positions MTI's Gladiator(TM) ESS as the system offering the "highest functionality" at a middle tier price when compared to solutions from EMC(R), Sun Microsystems(R) and CLARiiON(R).
The analysis was conducted to provide a buying tool to prospective RAID technology consumers seeking to make an informed buying decision for an open systems solution. Coopers & Lybrand obtained information used to perform the analysis from the individual manufacturers. The analysis compares systems in ten feature areas including reliability, performance, scalability, ease of use, environmentals and cost.
"Purchasers of RAID systems face the daunting task of comparing sets of product features and benefits to map across their needs," said Robert Gray, a research manager at International Data Corporation. "Independent studies can assist end users in making more informed decisions through an organized and methodical evaluation. The game is to access which decision offers the highest present value, given the business benefit stream over the expected life cycle."
MTI's Gladiator 3200 ESS, according to the analysis, "demonstrated as much as eight times the bandwidth of its competitors." At 1,280 Megabytes per second, it was double that of its nearest competitor, EMC at 640 Megabytes per second. Maximum server to I/O subsystem bandwidth may be used as a primary indicator of a solution's overall performance potential. |
