[ Thanks to Amy
Kucharik for this link. ]
“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…”