The considerate folks at HP did proffer a lower-cost solution, early on in the proposal. The company suggested that if Darwin's lacked the bucks to do the best job of protecting its mission-critical assets, an alternative existed in the form of HP OpenView SM (Storage Mirroring), a host-based application that performs remote copy over an IP LAN or WAN. SM is hosted on a Windows 2000 server and offers asynchronous replication at the LUN, file or byte level. Requiring no investment in Fibre Channel networks, it provides high-capacity replication and zero downtime functionality in a low-bandwidth, low-storage-volume change environment.
At $4,495 per seat with a minimum of two seats (for the local and remote sites), this provided a bargain-basement approach that we would have liked more detail on. However, HP didn't provide adequate documentation of the alternative low-price proposal to enable us to evaluate its suitability before press time. It might have been the better choice, or it may not have satisfied our criteria. Otherwise, the HP bid was very complete.
Hewlett-Packard Co., (800) 752-0900, (650) 857-1501. www.hp.com
Jon William Toigo is CEO of storage consultancy Toigo Partners International and author of 13 books, including Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable (Pearson Education, 2002). Write to him at [email protected].
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