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“We conducted a very comprehensive evaluation, and Dot Hill’s SANnet was the best performing, most cost-effective solution for our requirements."
-- Joseph Anino
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American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
Largest Natural History Museum in the World
Located in Central Park in New York City, the American Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in the world with over 32 million specimens and artifacts. It is home to vast collections of insects, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, anthropological artifacts, and more fossil mammals and dinosaurs than any other museum in the world. The museum employs over 200 scientists and has one of the largest natural history libraries in the Western Hemisphere. |
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Digitize the entire museum collection. They are creating electronic records of archaeologists’ journals and notes for the past 100 years. |
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- Scalability-need to grow from 1TB to 35TB as entire collection is catalogued
- Heterogeneous environment using Solaris and NT
- Cost-effective with high performance
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SANnet 4220 storage system and expansion chassis in a heterogeneous storage area network with Sun servers running Solaris and other servers running Windows NT. |
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- Excellent price/performance ratio
- Scalable, modular architecture to add capacity with virtually no downtime
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SANpath storage networking software |
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- Ensures continuous data availability through parallel active storage paths
- Peak performance through load balancing capabilities
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SANscape SAN management software |
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- Powerful easy-to-use GUI
- Manage SAN from a single console
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