Enterprise Storage
Hardware
PS3800XV can provide 2.3TB tools to set up, replicate, and
of raw storage. Our judges recover data over broadband
noted the PS3800XV’s fully Internet or Fibre Channel con-redundant, hot-swappable sys- nections.
tem controllers; three Gigabit
Ethernet network links per
EQUALLOGIC array; dual fans and power DATA DOMAIN
PS Series supplies; and a variety of DDX Array Series proactive diagnostics, internal The DDX Array Series
The PS3800XV is an enterprise-class midrange stor- disk and system health moni- offers up to 15 petabytes
age array from EqualLogic that provides midsize to large toring, and warning systems in of capacity and up to 6.4TB
businesses across any indus try a high- a 3U ( 5.25-inch) chassis. per hour of throughput and
performance storage area network includes management and
or SAN tier. The PS3800XV storage FINALISTS support for as many as 320
array extends the PS Series family beyond remote locations. Our judges
EqualLogic’s core SATA-based product line, COMPELLENT liked the fact that the DDX
combining EqualLogic’s load balancing and Storage Center with Thin Array Series can scale to as
storage virtualization with Replication many as 16 Data Domain
high-speed Serial Attached Storage Center with Thin DD560 or DD460 controllers
SCSI disk drives, which judges Replication offers midsize and associated storage in a
saw as providing high- organizations a modular single managed configura-performing storage for data- enterprise SAN that can scale tion. The DDX Array Series
base and online transaction to hundreds of terabytes of can be implemented with as
processing applications. data. Compellent’s offering few as four controllers and
With 16 146GB SAS drives won major points with our then expanded over time as
spinning at 15,000 rpm, the judges for its point-and-click business needs change.
WINNER
Enterprise Storage
Software
wide OEM partners. gave a thumbs up to StorageX’s
Our judges also appreciated data classification and report-the way that the new user inter- ing, its ILM (information lifecycle
face included with SAN/iQ Version management) capabilities, and
6. 6 simplifies SAN (storage its storage optimization options.
area network) management by
LEFTHAND NETWORKS presenting administrators with a
SAN/iQ centralized management console EMC that adheres to familiar Microsoft Avamar
Rolling out or extending an enterprise storage system means Windows UI metaphors. EMC’s Avamar software
making large investments in terms of both money and trust, and enables companies to quickly
there’s nothing like the potential threat of jumping ship to a rival FINALISTS and reliably protect data
vendor to keep your storage hardware providers honest and residing in remote office, LAN-responsive. That’s why our judges were impressed by LeftHand BROCADE attached-server and VMware
Networks’ SAN/iQ iSCSI storage software platform, which insulates StorageX environments, while dramati-companies from vendor lock-in with its ability to work with multiple Brocade’s StorageX is an cally reducing the required net-hardware systems. integrated suite of applications work bandwidth and backup
According to LeftHand that logically aggregates dis- storage. Avamar software
Networks, the software tributed file data across hetero- boasts innovative global data
works with a variety of geneous storage environments de-duplication and single-hardware platforms, includ- and across CIFS (Common instance storage technology
ing the HP ProLiant DL380, Internet File System)- and NFS to reduce the size of backup
IBM x3650, LeftHand’s own (Network File System)-based file data at the source before it is
NSM 260 and NSM 160, as systems, while providing poli- transferred across the network,
well as SAN solutions from cies to automate data manage- something our judges think is a
more than 20 other world- ment functions. Our judges also true asset.
