[THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)

Hi Jim,

Centera is more than just a data archiving solution. It uses cheap disks but
provides enough layers of redundancy that it's still reliable and you have
a lot faster solution than the traditional optical media based systems that
used to be used for email archiving etc. Quite a few of my customers use
them and they do their job. I think they're somewhat over-priced but
considering that they were designed as a write-once archival solution for
compliance requirements, in that area they're good value for money.

Though I've always wondered about putting archival data on magnetic media
;-)

The Centera with disk extender is a heirarchical storage system and isn't or
shouldn't ever be in a scenario where i/o performance will negatively impact
your environment.

regards,

Rick

Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division

On 3/26/08, Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Rick do you have any thoughts on EMC's Centerra product with Disk
> Extender?  We are looking at this for archival purposes. Does this have the
> same issues?
> Jim
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