For many a corporate client we have designed, from preplanning to EOL, a production system from the major IT vendors and then reduced their costs by designing a development system using second tier storage vendors. Usually the development system has greater storage capacity requirements and cost savings can be justified by matching the solution to the project. The solution typically offers the same level of reliability and performance as the major name vendors without the heavy duty price tag.

Some examples include:

• Many custom Oracle rollouts
• Many SAP rollouts
• Informix rollouts
• Prepress applications
• Email systems