SAN Storage Buying Guide
SAN Storage Buying Guide
We know there are many SAN storage buying guides available today and that many present themselves as objective, facts based comparisons. I try my best to not interject opinion into our buying guide but probably fail more than I suspect.
One thing you won’t find here is a “best SAN storage system”. There are just too many variables for most storage systems and application environments to claim one best system for everyone. So if you searching for that, please go elsewhere.
However, you will find lot’s of performance data here, cut in as many ways as I deem fit to judge system performance. I believe performance data, using published, audited, and reviewed resuls, are as objective as one can get.
Also, I have supplied extensive tables detailing system capacities, features, and functionality covering 43 SAN storage systems. I know there are many more than that out there but I had to stop somewhere. However, you will find all the major vendors (Dell, EMC, HP, HDS, IBM and NetApp) as well as a smattering of many others. It’s not exhaustive and wasn’t intended to be but I do believe that somewhere in this list one can find the right storage for your environment.
SAN Storage Buying Guide overview
Our recently updated (Nov., 2011), Storage Area Network (SAN) Storage Buying Guide provides a good introduction and description of SAN storage technology, functionality and performance. This buying guide can help IT staff better understand SAN storage capabilities, compare storage system features and rank product performance. Specifically, the guide helps storage and system admins:
- Select the SAN storage subsystems that best fits your application needs
- Understand SAN storage technology features, functionality, and capabilities
- Compare SAN storage characteristics and performance
SAN Storage Buying Guide Author
SCI’s SAN Storage Buying Guide was written by Ray Lucchesi, a 30 year storage industry veteran, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in file storage, and an award-winning speaker and frequent author on storage industry topics. At his former employer (StorageTek) Ray developed and/or managed the engineering of enterprise class storage systems for over 20 years and has been an highly respected, storage industry analyst since then. Ray also publishes a free monthly newsletter which discusses storage performance results and major storage announcements (sign up Newsletter page)
SAN Storage Buying Guide Product Description
SCI’s SAN Storage Buying Guide
- Consists of 40 pages of text, product comparison tables and performance charts
- Discusses over 12 advanced SAN storage technology features,
- Includes 4 product tables, comparing 43 enterprise, mid-range and low-end SAN storage subsystems using 28 system characteristics
- Includes 19 block storage performance charts covering top 30 SPC and Top 20 Exchange 2010 (ESRP v3) results,
- Comes as a spiral bound document
- Costs $280 plus shipping
SAN Storage Briefing discounts available
SCI’s SAN Storage Buying Guide is often purchased with our NAS Buying Guide and if purchased together, we provide a 10% discount (see our Products page ~1/2 way down for details). When used together, the two briefings provide an in-depth understanding of both the SAN and NAS shared networked storage, infrastructure solutions.
If you are interested in an even more significant discount off list price for providing a customer testimonial on our SAN briefing, please give us a call at +1-720-221-7270.
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Contact information for other questions
If you have any questions about our SAN Storage Briefing feel free to call us 8am-5pm MT, Mon-Fri at +1-720-221-7270 or you can send an email to Questions@SilvertonConsulting.com. If you prefer you can also send your questions to:
Silverton Consulting, P.O. Box 492, Broomfield, CO 80038-0492
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