Storage consultation and procurement
I’m looking to formulate a RFI/RFP for two separate engagements: Phase 1. SAN analysis – contract someone to evaluate our current SAN and provide recommendations only (vendor neutral). Phase 2. SAN procurement – find what questions to ask and what’s important with the purchase of a new SAN

Answer Question   |  July 30, 2008  6:11 PM
SAN, SAN spending

SAN Recommendation
My company is looking for a third-party (meaning not affiliated with a SAN vendor/reseller/consulting company) to review the 3-4 top SAN vendors and review my company’s storage needs and give a quantitative recommendation. If anyone knows of someone or is someone who can fill this need, can you please reply to this email?

Answer Question   |  July 24, 2008  3:25 PM
SAN, SAN spending, Storage vendors

RFQ template for SAN implementation
Help! I’ve just discovered that I need to implement a new storage solution ASAP. As a starting point, I’m interested in getting my hands on a simple RFQ template for a SAN solution. Is anybody out there aware of such a template and/or can they point me in the right direction. Many Thanks

Answer Question   |  July 24, 2008  1:08 PM
Budgeting, SAN, SAN spending

First SAN for my company and it is breaking the bank.
On my windows 2 cpu server with 20 disks, disk queue lengths exceed 40. Windows perfmon and IOmeter benchmarks give me 0.9K IOPs for write and 2K for reads, 8K OLTP block size. #disks : 20 : 36 GB, 15K rpm, U320 scsi with two dual channel controllers with 256 MB cache each. I am [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  3:05 PM
SAN, SAN spending, Storage products and equipment