“Once up and running, there’s a Storage Availability Audit service. The retroactive audit makes sure customers are making use of the availability features built into the systems.”<\/p>\n
Does the retroactive audit simply provide data for a ‘ root cause analysis’ review? Does NetApp have any tools that could help predict oncoming problems?<\/p>\n
At another point in the same article I learned that the FAS2000 series is low priced and runs a lot of storage. I think this is the same unit that uses the Intel Mobile Celeron for its processor, which I learned from a NetApp customer who told me, but that is not mentioned in the article.<\/p>\n
“Similar to NetApp’s FAS200 product line, the new FAS2000 series is designed as a low-to-mid-end storage appliance, but still sports some high end features and protocols.”<\/p>\n
The jury of my peers is still pondering whether the Mobile Celeron is enough processor for the enterprise storage market. I suppose that the early adopters will be able to tell us soon enough.<\/p>\n
It looks like NetApp is pricing the 2000 series products at the same price levels as their storevault<\/a> product, does that make any sense?<\/p>\n Do you want your storage vendor to be proactive or retroactive? According to this article NetApp is trying to be retroactive… “Once up and running, there’s a Storage Availability Audit service. The retroactive audit makes sure customers are making use … Continue reading 