SearchEnterpriseLinux: Building an Affordable SAN on Linux

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"Why do businesses balk at using SAN technologies, despite the fact that they can alleviate storage capacity shortages?

"Todd Sanders: The No. 1 factor holding back SAN implementations is cost. For example, we worked with EMC on a project that costs about $20 million to prepare. The cost included spatial requirements, cooling, weight requirements, power requirements, etc.

"A Linux solution would allow us to minimize the cost impact to the client and place a pilot solution that was about one-tenth of the cost..."

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