[THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)
- From: "Evan Mann" <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:17:35 -0400
I'd recommend taking a look at NetApp. It will be much more end-user
friendly then anything EMC has to offer you. When we shopped around and
spoke with EMC, they recommended Celera as well. We asked them how
difficult it would be to re-provision the volumes, and they said you
would have to get professionals ervices involved. There was a lot of
basic administrative tasks that they said professional services was
required for. However, they did say a new software release was coming
which will give the end user much more ability to do these kind of
tasks. This was about 1 1/2 years ago now, so a lot has probably
changed. However, that said a lot about EMC and the way their products
were developed IMO.
Also EMC is known for very strong arm sales tactics, so don't let them
beat you up and try and force you into buying their product. I have a
friendly who has all but written a PO to buy a NetApp and EMC came
knocking on his door last week. He's in a government role so he was
required to meet them. They've contacted him about a dozen times since.
When he told them he wasn't interested and was going with NetApp, the
sales people he met with got extremely defensive and rude with him.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Erik Blom
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:25 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)
Hi,
We are currently evaluating a possible migration from our Windows 2003
fileserver towards another fileserving system. Our main concerns are
security, high-availability and performance. We talked to EMC about this
and they mentioned migrating towards a Celerra system.
Does anyone of you has any experience - good or bad - with such a
system?
Regards,
Erik
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