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Supporting Quotes for
CLARiiON SAN Announcement
Bloomberg L.P.
"The amount of information that we now have to store and make available to everybody in
the world is growing exponentially. When we started dealing with Data General we had
around 17,000 customers, and now we have 120,000 customers. With Data General, we
get the service and support that we need to manage this growth at what we think is a
reasonable price. The package of support, service and hardware we receive from Data
General adds up to a winning combination. We have not found a better package or price
and that is why we are a customer of Data General's."
Michael Bloomberg, President and Founder, Bloomberg L.P.
"At Bloomberg we add an average of 2 gigabytes of CLARiiON raw disk storage every
hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."
Bob Ostrow, Partner, Bloomberg L.P.
CLEAR Communications
"When we were choosing enterprise storage technology, we looked for a number of
things. The solution had to be scalable, modular, flexible, and SAN-ready. CLARiiON
met those needs with a better cost per MB than the available storage solutions from
server vendors. Now we have four major platforms using CLARiiON storage technology -
an HP OLTP cluster; a data warehouse running on Sun; file services on Novell; and a
billing platform being developed on SGI. We chose CLARiiON because it was the most
scalable, flexible, and modular solution and it supports a wide range of open platforms."
Carl Morgan, UNIX Systems Engineer, CLEAR Communications
GTE Interworking
"The storage we pick for our operations center and the tools we use to manage that
storage will rely heavily on CLARiiON. As we continue to grow and increasingly need the
ability to share storage across more and more servers, we're going to look toward SANs.
SANs will enable us to connect a lot more storage, expand it more easily, and then
share and back it up with high speed. We are looking forward to deploying a lot of SANs
over time. I am tremendously happy working with CLARiiON as a vendor."
Christopher Yetman, Director of Customer Services Delivery, GTE Internetworking
Javu Technologies, Inc.
"Having our eyes set on multimedia-rich server-based computing, which involves the
handling of extremely large media clips, our storage requirements are focused on
reliability, fast data transfer, data security and scalability in a multi-platform environment.
The delivery of an advanced Fibre Channel interface design, superior performance,
scalability and seamless integration into existing systems made CLARiiON our top
choice. Low maintenance and less breakdowns yield significant savings - CLARiiON
even lowered our total cost of ownership."
Max E. Orlov, Vice President, Javu Technologies Inc.
RR Donnelley
"RR Donnelley's customers need faster cycle times for both print and non-print media.
Central storage of pre-media data provides us with faster data access and increased
process throughput, which we believe, will significantly compress these production cycle
times. This helps us get Web site updates, books, catalogs and magazines to the
market earlier. We are investigating the Data General's CLARiiON SAN solution as an
opportunity to meet that challenge."
Kirk Brauch, LAN/WAN Subject Matter Expert, RR Donnelley
Sabre
"One important business consideration involved in our decision to go with CLARiiON was
our concern about protecting data assets in the implementation of data center recovery
strategies, which, in the yield management applications area, include rigorous standards
for data backup and restore. Data are key assets for our customers and our business.
We purchased CLARiiON storage for our yield management applications for several key
reasons. First, CLARiiON provides hardware-based RAID, which gave us both reliability
and performance; second, CLARiiON full Fibre Channel technology; and third, great
support. The reliability and performance, especially when dealing with large applications,
has been terrific with CLARiiON. As to CLARiiON's future direction, their SAN strategy is
solid and it has a lot of good features. Three features that come to mind are backup
without using the LAN, security, and support for heterogeneous servers. CLARiiON has
proved to be a competitive alternative to several other vendors."
Richard Ratliff, Vice President, Airline Yield Management, Sabre
sixdegrees
"First and foremost, we require a reliable and high-performance storage solution.
CLARiiON delivers the needed full Fibre Channel technology and hardware RAID that is
currently unavailable through other vendors. CLARiiON storage has proven to be reliable
and high in performance."
Patrick Tan, Senior Vice President of Technology, sixdegrees
Tippett Studio
"When we were looking for storage, we wanted a high-bandwidth solution in a small
footprint, at a good price. Since we installed our terabyte of CLARiiON storage, it has
been nearly incident free and we think it will be a model for the future expansion for our
storage solution."
Christian Rice, UNIX Systems Administrator Department Head, Tippett Studio
Brocade
"Brocade is focused on working with best-in-class OEMs. We are excited about working
with CLARiiON because they are a pioneer in Fibre Channel technology. Brocade is
committed to the concept of an open SAN and CLARiiON is the best-in-class storage
solution. Brocade complements CLARiiON in terms of delivering a complete solution to
the end user."
Greg Reyes, President & CEO, Brocade
EDS
"Global competitive pressures are forcing organizations to lower costs while improving
products and customer services. EDS is helping extended enterprises and organizations
to link core business processes and applications with suppliers, partners and
customers; to redefine business models, reengineer processes, change corporate
cultures; and improve customer and supplier relationships. To be successful, enterprises
need faster ways to offer and distribute products and services. EDS is looking to Storage
Area Networks to enable faster movement of data, provide a simpler means of
management, and to reduce the cost of E-Business. CLARiiON, with its SAN roll out
outlined today, and EDS, with its commitment to Fibre Channel technology, are well
positioned to deliver high impact SAN solutions to our customers."
George Ackels, Vice President Centralized Systems Management, EDS
Intel Corporation
"Intel and CLARiiON have been working together for over three years, sharing a common
motivation and direction for developing cutting-edge technologies. Intel has a solid
understanding of where the power of our microprocessor technology is going to take
servers, and CLARiiON has a clear vision of delivering Fibre Channel-based Storage Area
Networks. It is this combined vision for building high performance, standards-based and
affordable solutions that has bound us together in the delivery of optimized environments
for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks and Intel Pentium® III XeonTM based servers."
John Miner, Vice President, General Manager Enterprise Server Group, Intel Corporation
Legato Systems
"Legato and CLARiiON have been working together to develop centralized backup
solutions for SANs. The first phase of this is a LAN-free, high performance, highly reliable
SAN backup solution that customers can take advantage of today. The combination of
CLARiiON innovation in Fibre Channel SAN technology with Legato's market-leading
storage management products will give customers unprecedented capability to protect
their mission-critical data."
Lou C. Cole, President and CEO, Legato Systems
Oracle
"Oracle believes that storage technology is key to the deployment of Internet-based
applications, which must be reliable, fast and available 7x24. The dependency on
Storage Area Networks will will increase, as more customers migrate to Web-based
applications, and CLARiiON, with its Fibre Channel technology, is well positioned to help
lower the costs of Internet computing."
Glenn P. Lim, Vice President, World Wide Alliances, Oracle
RAID Power
"What our customers like most about CLARiiON storage has been its reliability, but with
the CLARiiON end-to-end Fibre Channel product, it's also the fastest storage out there.
So now, in addition to reliability, our customers are getting the added benefits of
scalability and speed."
Dan Gittleman, President and CEO, RAID Power
Seagate
"Storage Area Networks are a key enabling technology and platform for greater storage
intelligence to emerge in the enterprise, delivering greater manageability, performance
and value in storage products. CLARiiON's entry into the SAN marketplace further
validates the growing importance of storage as a key corporate asset and positions
CLARiiON on the forefront of this important development. Seagate values the close
partnership we have with CLARiiON in maturing Fibre Channel and looks forward to
continuing collaboration on innovative storage technologies."
Steve Luczo, President and Chief Executive Officer, Seagate
VERITAS Software
"With the broadest range of field-proven data availability and storage management
products for both UNIX and NT, VERITAS and industry leader CLARiiON are delivering
high-availability SAN solutions today. We look forward to extending our long-standing
relationship with CLARiiON to serving as leading providers of truly integrated storage
networking solutions."
Robin Purohit, Director of SAN Products for VERITAS Software
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