Carnival Cruise Lines has swapped out aging EMC Symmetrix storage (and Sun servers) for Dell EqualLogic SAN storage and PowerEdge servers, racking up savings of 7,000 hours per year for its shipboard IT staff. Symmetrix is a great platform, says Carnival’s Doug Eney, VP of IS engineering, but it was time to upgrade and EMC’s prices were too high. “We also looked at Clariion [servers], but didn’t feel it was as resilient as we need. EqualLogic was able to meet our needs.” Other storage companies that were evaluated included LeftHand, 3Par, NetApp and Compellent.
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