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Taylor's Take on Sun Storage

My storage team and I focus on three of the most important aspects in any industry: customers, competitors and market trends. There is insight to gain and share in this role, so here is our take on Sun and Storage - Taylor Allis


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Monday Mar 10, 2008

Game-changing Storage Economics

In the open systems VTL space, EMC is the leader in market share.  (Sun leads in the Mainframe space btw).  How can Sun compete?  Answer - By changing the Economics at the infrastructure level.  See below: 

 Product
Capacity
Software
H/W Platform
Power Consumption
Rack Size
 EMC DL210
 24 TB FalconStor
 1 Server, 48 SATA drives
 1,315 Watts
 15U
 Sun VTL Value
 24 TB
 FalconStor 1 X4500
 1,100 Watts
(16% less)

 4U
(73% less!)

This is an example I use because both EMC and Sun (and IBM for that matter) use the same software - FalconStor

So, wouldn't you take a closer look at a product that offers similar functionality at 16% less power consumption in 73% less space? 

Comments:

Taylor,
What de-duplication software is available on the Sun VTL? Are you open to offering more than one de-duplication approach? How does de-duplication change the metrics?
John

Posted by John McArthur on March 30, 2008 at 07:24 AM MDT #

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