SANs

in australia 2 major players are IBM and MICROSOFT. Mircosoft having 4 and IBM 1.

We just finished implementing a SAN and finding a vendor was not easy. The significant players in the SAN market are the same as your preferred server/storage vendors IBM, Compaq, Dell, and EMC. Brocade and QLogic make them as well.

The size ofthe organization you are implementing this for (or data sizes) will push you to one vendor over the other. IBM and EMC have million dollar plus solutions, whereas we imlemented a Dell solutions for one tenth of that. We didn't need hundreds of terrabytes on storage...

Top three are probably EMC, Hitachi, and IBM. There are quite a few vendors who offer SAN products, but not all of them offer complete solutions. EMC has quite a large offering, but they are pricey. If you don't need an enterprise system, you maywant to look at some of the smaller products offered by vendors such as Compaq and Dell. The advantage, from what I have seen, with the large players is the quality of the software and support. EMC offers a lot of support, software, and uptime fortheir systems.

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