Peter,
If, as a current NetApp user, you have grown accustomed to their standard of reliability, performance, features, breadth of offerings, investment protection and support, I believe you will find more than just reputation lacking in most competitors' offerings. (Of course YMMV; I am certainly familiar with NetApp owners who have been less than satisfied, too.) I state this as one who can sell you not only NetApp filers but also competing storage solutions from Sun and Procom, as well as Compaq, EMC, and others. Obviously your requirements are unique and there are solid solutions from myriad competitors that may satisfy your needs, but if you're just looking to save a few $, then I would suggest considering stepping down to an F810 or even F87 before ruling out NetApp on price (I may be reading too much into your post here).
Explore your options. If you can, try to get a few demo boxes in from competing vendors and try them out in your environment. I imagine NetApp would welcome the opportunity to reinforce their dominance in the NAS market by going head-to-head. I'd feel confident with them in there, were I the reseller competing for your business.
Very general reply to a very general question.
Joe
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-----Original Message----- From: Peter D. Gray [mailto:pdg@uow.edu.au] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:49 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Netapp alternatives
Has anybody on this list experience with procom filers or the veritas "servpoint" software.
We are in the process of upgrading our NAS and procom and SUN (with veritas servpoint) are options along with staying with netapp.
The veritas product looks interesting (see the veritas web site if you want details) but is pretty new. The procom filers are a lot cheaper but do not have the reputation of netapp. The latest spec results though seem to indicate that the procom filers offer pretty good performance.
Regards, pdg
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