Calgary Consulting Firm Integrates Open-E DSS Storage Solution

TERA's data needs have nearly doubled, and were in 2005, in excess of one terabyte spread amongst several file servers. We decided to consolidate our storage and do so in a way which would not need biannual overhauls. TERA held several meetings with top tier vendors for an adequate SAN solution and every one failed to deliver; many admitted themselves that SAN's were generally too complex for small companies to maintain and too costly to purchase for their data needs. This was generally true – Fibre Channel SAN's were more than $30 per gigabyte when hard drives were under $2 per gigabyte. Submitted by Chan & Associates, Inc.