On 4/6/07, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This one I don't quite get? If I'm using the same DS8000, why would it be cheaper? Unless you are saying you have more options to purchase other things than just the same old IBM, EMC, HDS stuff.
I believe the perceived difference is in staff cost. Open Systems tend to have less people per GB manage your storage. I suppose you don't have people there to check optimal data set block size, look at trends in performance etc. Back then we had to lobby for a 10-cylinder A-disk while Linux servers deal in full 3390-9's at a time. I would not be surprised if the number of GB for the average application is also much higher. Maybe some of that is easy wasted since it is so cheap. Cheap disk space is a great. Until when you start to think about backup and fail-over. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
