Adjusting SAN volume control. Companies contemplate making an intelligent switch [InfoWorld: Storage]

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Weaving SAN fabric proves complicated. Even switches from the same company don't get along readily [InfoWorld: Storage]

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EMC, IBM, and HP engage in SAN-to-SAN combat. The InfoWorld Test Center determines which vendor is best equipped to conquer the midrange sweet spot of the storage world [InfoWorld: Storage]

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Extending laptops' ROI. New mobile drives can prolong the life of obsolescing computers [InfoWorld: Storage]

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SAN management is still rocket science. Bewildering CLIs and configuration settings remain a challenge [InfoWorld: Storage]

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Gateway aims at Dell, HP with new storage products. Move aims at enterprise hardware market [InfoWorld: Storage]

Gateway? In the storage arena? Please.

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I had a very bad day today dealing with one of my customers over a very small detail that was overlooked in the presales process by everyone involved. This isn't just an EMC issue, yet it is. The issue revolves around support for different stripe sizes. EMC supports a number of stripe sizes, two, three, and four cylinder stripe sizes, to name a few, on the Symmetrix 5 architecture. They only support two cylinder stripe sets on the new DMX series of Symmetrix frames. I have been told it was an engineering decision, but it has royally screwed my project. As a result, EMC is going to eat a ton of very expensive disks and upwards of 500 man hours to configure an existing environment to be compatible with their new products. How does this make sense?

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