In recent cases, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), along with its partners, has displaced EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) as the incumbent supplier. The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) has awarded a contract worth up to $70 million over five years to Lockheed Martin Corp. for a 12-site SAN deployment (read the case study). Carlson Companies, a hospitality and travel conglomerate, has chosen to go with IP at the core of its data center's SAN and avoid the complexities of Fibre Channel (see Nishan Bites Into the Core).
Meanwhile, two German IT groups (Doppelgängers, perhaps?) are using virtualization technologies to better utilize their storage and avoid being locked in to one supplier. BHF-Bank was concerned about being beholden to IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM), while the City of Pforzheim (Gesundheit!) mainly needed a better way to manage their constantly expanding storage (see BHF Banks on Virtualization and Pforzheim Goes Virtual).
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