A brief comparison between Compellent and XIV
In these days I’m working on a deal where we are proposing Compellent Storage Center in competition against IBM XIV. The customer is a fast growing company, Italian leader in its market and the IT department is facing with big strategic projects, one of them is the new SAN infrastructure. The customer is very disappointed about the old generation SAN (two IBM DS4x00) in place and he has...
ContinuaA not so successful case and the power of marketing
These days I am competing with IBM XIV in a business negotiation. I’m gathering as much information as possible to give the customer a document he could find immediately useful and then I’ll publish it on this blog. During my research I came across this “success case” (just one out of the 11 published): the customer says he bought a XIV (79 TB usable) to feed a 7TB ...
ContinuaApples to Oranges (or XIV to enterprise storage)
A new blogger from IBM is here, I’m very glad to add myself to the long list of bloggers who are welcoming @StorageBuddhist to the blogosphere! All contributes to the blogging community are well accepted but, in a hard fighting arena like this, one of his first posts were a little bit ingenuous (IMHO)… and posts from other bloggers arrived promptly! But let me get a look to the latest...
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