[rescue] Re: RE: somewhat OT: secondary market storage?

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Robert Novak wrote:

> I had 4-6 Sun and VAR people in at my last job pitching the Sun duct-tape
> NAS stuff (E220+A1000, E420+A1000, E4500+T3). I asked what the best reason
> to choose them over Netapp (whose F740 we ended up getting), and they said
> (I shit you not) "People like Sun." I was supposed to go with a Solaris
> server and some superglue because it came from Sun.

Now, I don't know how they compare price-wise and such, but the A1000s
are NICE arrays.  Now, that might have something to do with the fact
that Sun bought the product line from someone...  But I like the A1000s,
although it doesn't sound like they compete in the same area as NetApp.

--Kurt