EMC came back today and we disqualified the Clariion line. We’ve asked for a DMX, aka Symmetrix, quote which they will provide tomorrow.

In the meantime we’re crunching through the other vendors proposals.

We’re also in the process of flying in Lee Jensen (Cluster Engineering), Dan Peterson (Systems Engineering) & Tyler Poland (DBA) into our CA data center to work through the implementation details along with myself (Edward Muller), our CTO, Tom Mornini & our Systems Architect, Jayson Vantuyl. We’ll also be pulling in Storage Architects from our chosen SAN vendor as well as a Network Engineer from our switch vendor (Extreme Networks). More on that as things come together.

-Edward Muller