Despite the fact that the appliance can sit unobtrusively out-of-band when its not being used, not everyone chooses to leave it plugged in when its not needed. "We dont have it permanently residing in front of our file servers," says Alan Cohen, an IT architect with Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A), another Rainfinity customer. "We like to keep our environment as simple as possible."
Agere bought a RainStorage appliance specifically for a large-scale data migration project of 30 Tbytes of data, Cohen says. "We were undergoing a massive server consolidation effort, and users really want zero downtime," he says. "It was fairly seamless. There were some minimal disruptions, but for the most part users were able to continue working throughout the migration."
Cohen says one of the shortcomings of the first version of the RainStorage appliance was that it could only keep track of 3 million files -- a limit that has now been removed. "It had a hard stop," he says. "It would hit the limit, and then stop serving files... Theyve fixed that now."
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