Hmm... NetApp :)

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Skottie Miller Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:57 PM To: Luther Allin Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Replacing OUR NetApp

Ask Oracle what storage they use internally: NetApp or Pillar?

then decide.

-skottie

Luther Allin wrote:

I'm liking the thread that John Stewart started about his filer replacement, so I decided to start my own.

We too are faced with replacing our NetApp filers this year. We have and F720 (cifs file shares) and an F810 (cifs and iscsi). Both of

these

filers are maxed out both in disk space and processor. We had NetApp come up with a solution for us to replace these and the proposal is attractive. They put together a 3020 system for us that should meet both of our storage and processing needs for at least the next 2

years.

So we budgeted for the replacement. Then the unthinkable happened...

My boss received a postcard from a company called Pillar Data. He brought the postcard to me and said, "we should look at what these

guys

have." The rest is history. For those of you not familiar with

Pillar

Data, it's a startup of Larry Ellison's (the ORACLE Larry Ellison.) They have a really neat product, and their QOS is quite impressive.

But

I don't think that their product is mature enough yet for prime time.

After spending some time with their engineers and traveling to the Enterprise Technology Center in Atlanta to demo one of these

solutions,

I found some chinks in their armor. I won't go into the details here,

but if anyone wants to know what I've learned about them, I'll be

happy

to share that information.

So this leads me to my question. Has anyone heard of Pillar Data and

if

so I was wondering if you shared my opinion (or not) of their product?

I want to stick with the NetApp solution that was proposed, so I'm looking for ammunition to back up my argument.

Cheers.

Luther L. Allin IV, MCSE, ICSA Network Systems Engineer Miller & Martin PLLC http://www.millermartin.com/832 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000 Chattanooga, TN 37402 lallin@millermartin.com mailto:lallin@millermartin.com (423) 785-8381 (Direct) (423) 321-1678 (Fax) Atlanta-Chattanooga-Nashville

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