So I've written quite a few articles about our Equallogic arrays and their strengths and weakness. The short version is, we love their simplicity. The features are easy to use, but things like replication and snapshots use a LOT of space and bandwidth compared to their competitors, somewhat offsetting the "every feature included for one price" mantra since you have to buy significantly a lot more space to use the features in the same way. We also loved their reliability. Notice the past tense of that statement as the last few months have been pretty rough on that front, eventually culminating in a major data loss event about a week ago.
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