Nevertheless, the perception in the user community obviously remains strong that interoperability is nowhere near what it needs to be for enterprises to feel comfortable mixing and matching their FC equipment.
Before putting in the HP equipment, Perry Ellis's Oracle databases were hosted on a Sun Solaris server that was "pretty much end of life," Lapidot says. The company looked at the next generation of Sun's gear and compared that with HP's offering based on Windows 2000 servers.
Lapidot says the overall price/performance ratio of HP's two-server cluster was 50 percent better than a similar one from Sun, though he declined to say what Perry Ellis paid for it. It ended up installing two ProLiant DL580 G2 servers in a fail-over configuration and 1.5 TBytes in a StorageWorks Virtual Array 7410, connected via the Brocade switches.
"I'm very pleased at the way this turned out," he says. "This was the first time we were going with Wintel on an Oracle platform... which was kind of a risk."
Another reason Perry Ellis went with the HP SAN was to accommodate its rapidly growing databases, which include everything from Web services to product development, and electronic data interchange (EDI) to financial data. Its storage needs are increasing even more dramatically now because the company has recently made some large acquisitions: In March 2002, Perry Ellis bought swimwear maker Jantzen Inc., and last month it completed the acquisition of menswear designer and importer Salant Corp.
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