Professor
Mr. Louis Voit
Semester
Spring 2007
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The article advertises three new solutions put out by Dell for small and medium sized businesses, the Dell/EMC CX3-10, the PowerVault TL2000 and the PowerVault TL4000. The Dell/EMC CX3-10 is a very basic storage system with a capacity of between 73 and 500 GB. With eight possible connections that can be intermixed in the same array there is a total capacity of over 30 TB. This storage processor is attached through either the Fiber Channel or iSCSI and comes with four connections for each. The PowerVault TL2000 and the PowerVault TL4000 are tape libraries. They allow users to amalgamate dual functionalities, data protection and archiving. They have a capacity of between 9.6 and 17.6 TB, can hold up to 44 tape cartridges and come in two height configurations 2U and 4U. |
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Businesses that deal a lot with media would find the tape libraries very useful. In addition to the large capacity they offer there is the aspect of data security and protection which is so essential nowadays. The Dell/EMC CX3-10 storage processor also seems to be a reasonable buy for small and medium sized businesses. The article does not indicate whether this system could be expanded in the future when these businesses may begin to require more storage. I therefore would not readily advise the purchase of this product because of the limited capacity it may offer in the long run. Neither would I recommend this product for small and medium sized businesses. Even though businesses may worry about costs, I believe it is better to invest in a system that can be expanded in the long run where there is much more return on dollar value rather than one that will soon fail to meet the needs of the business and thus need to be discarded relatively quickly for something with larger capacity. |
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