The overall goal of the IT organization at Cox is to build efficiencies into its existing resources. "With the economy where it is, we have to do more with less," Hanna says. It's a familiar story. That said, "a good deal" of Cox's budget is finding its way into new storage products to enable consolidation. "With the maturing of our infrastructure, it makes sense for us to take advantage of SANs and consolidate our Unix and Intel environments, instead of managing these as separate islands," Hanna says.
As far as the new Clariion CX400 goes, Hanna is satisfied with the results. This product is the sixth in EMC's Clariion line and replaces the FC4700, although EMC will continue to support the older product, says Chuck Hollis, VP of markets and products at EMC.
The CX400 shares the same software as its big brother, the CX600, but has a maximum capacity of 4.3 TBytes where the CX600 goes up to 17.2 TBytes. Host ports supported per array on the CX400, hosts per array, and LUNs supported are all about half the number as the CX600 (see EMC Revs Up Clariion).
It is designed to compete head on with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and to a lesser extent IBM Corp.
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