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design (which is a relabelled one I believe) was very outdated.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and were quite happy with it but their new robots were also very outdated 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

-----Original Message-----
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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