I can understand pricing, but I'm curious what options you're looking for
in a library that isn't there?

Thank you,
Rusty

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Bart
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David,

HP fell off quite fast due to their presentation.  The sales guy was
totally uninterested and could not answer most of the questions.  Also
their robotic design (which is a relabelled one I believe) was very
outdated.
With SUN we had other issues.  We bought a VTL from them (FalconStor in
fact) and had serious issues with it for more than a year.  Support was
quite bad.  This also played a role in the decision.  We ran a pure
StorageTek environment and were quite happy with it but their new robots
were also very outdated compared to the other vendors.

Also regarding the price they both were very expensive compared to the
other ones.

Best Regards,
Bart WALLEBROEK

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From: David Magda [mailto:dmagda AT ee.ryerson DOT ca]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:27 AM
To: WALLEBROEK Bart
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library

On Aug 3, 2011, at 03:44, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote:

> In the end IBM, Quantum and Spectra were the only vendors left that
> were any good (HP and SUN fell of quite fast) We choose for Spectra
(although it was the more expensive one) for the reason that their robots
are far more technologically advanced than the others.  And also because
of the (very) small footprint and low power consumption (important during
these "Green IT" days).

Can you explain why "HP and SUN fell of quite fast"?

I've dealt with STKs in a couple of places, and never really had any
issues with them (the last being 'just' an SL500). At the place I'm
currently at there's a Quantum i2000 that's a bit troublesome but, as I've
only been here a short time, I'm not sure if that's the library's fault or
something else in the environment.

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