Of course, Sandial customer Swartz disagrees. I chose Sandial because they met all of my qualifications -- port count, reliability, scaleability, and so on, he said. I for one am not scared of a new company. We looked at Brocade, Cisco, McData, and Sandial. There was always some issue with one of the three that didnt meet my specific criteria.
Swartz was also the only of the four who said his switch influenced his choice of storage vendor instead of the other way around. "Im looking for storage that will support my switch, he said. XIOtech
and Hitachi Data Systems
[SANs] support Sandial; EMC
does not. Thats more of a negative against EMC than a negative against Sandial.
As for general criteria in selecting a vendor, the four agree that each company has its specific needs.
If I had to list the criteria, Id say scaleability, performance, ease of management, and it has to be supported by my primary storage vendor, saidCarucci.
We wanted five nines of availability so we decided to go with McData... to interface with our core director switches, Marani said.
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