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On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > When you buy a NetApp appliance and corresponding disks, you are > buying the value add of snapshot technology and many other unique and > special features that make up a NetApp. Snapshots is hardly unique to NetApp. Just saying. In practice, when you buy a NetApp appliance you really buy NetApp's support and service, not the features. > For the same amount of money, or less, for enterprise-level storage > and backup, what might people recommend? Companies? Technologies? Do you need I/O fencing? What about local and long-haul replication? What are the remote management requirements? Do you need secure segregation between different business units? Will you be using direct I/O or will you need on-board cache? With or without battery backup? With or without power-fault write from cache? NAS, SAN, or both? FCAL or fabric? You should be asking yourself these questions and questions like them. Make a list of your requirements first, then find vendors who meet those requirements. Don't skimp. A site lives and dies with its data, whether a high school student's homework netbook or a 24x365 international trading platform. If storage fails, you lose. If it takes too long to recover, you fail. --Rich P.
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