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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Hi Joe:
Isn't Data-Line a reseller of NetApp? You don't mention that you might be biased toward NetApp in your note. Does your company also sell other Data Storage solutions? What are their strengths? GJ
--- Joe Luchtenberg joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com wrote:
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
Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc.
Email: joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com Phone: 757-457-0504 (direct line) 757-858-0600 (front desk) 757-285-1223 (mobile) Fax: 757-858-0606
Please visit us at www.data-line.com
-----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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Last time I checked, this list was for netapp users and managers. I think that it is fair to assume that the members of this list are generally biased towards netapps. Granted, there are the occasional list members from other competing companies, but I don't think it is necessary to start every message with a "I like netapps" disclaimer.
barry
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 08:47 AM, grey jolly wrote:
Hi Joe:
Isn't Data-Line a reseller of NetApp? You don't mention that you might be biased toward NetApp in your note. Does your company also sell other Data Storage solutions? What are their strengths? GJ
--- Joe Luchtenberg joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com wrote:
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
Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc.
Email: joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com Phone: 757-457-0504 (direct line) 757-858-0600 (front desk) 757-285-1223 (mobile) Fax: 757-858-0606
Please visit us at www.data-line.com
-----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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In fact, Joe does mention quite openly in his post that Dataline sells other solutions. And, like Barry says, a bit of bias is to be expected from this list.
July ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Lustig" barry@lustig.com To: "grey jolly" greyjolly@yahoo.com Cc: "Joe Luchtenberg" joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com; "'Peter D. Gray'" pdg@uow.edu.au; toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: Re: Netapp alternatives
Last time I checked, this list was for netapp users and managers. I think that it is fair to assume that the members of this list are generally biased towards netapps. Granted, there are the occasional list members from other competing companies, but I don't think it is necessary to start every message with a "I like netapps" disclaimer.
barry
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 08:47 AM, grey jolly wrote:
Hi Joe:
Isn't Data-Line a reseller of NetApp? You don't mention that you might be biased toward NetApp in your note. Does your company also sell other Data Storage solutions? What are their strengths? GJ
--- Joe Luchtenberg joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com wrote:
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
Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc.
Email: joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com Phone: 757-457-0504 (direct line) 757-858-0600 (front desk) 757-285-1223 (mobile) Fax: 757-858-0606
Please visit us at www.data-line.com
-----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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