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s on the market. Too often a lower-cost product will end up costing you more to integrate and manage, which negates up-front costs. Align technology that will meet your requirements and allow growth in terms of performance, capacity, availability and feature function.

Greg Schulz is founder and senior. analyst of The StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com) in Stillwater, Minn., and author of the book Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier).

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