In the 2005 Quality Awards midrange arrays survey, we were struck by the high scores products received, indicating across-the-board satisfaction. In that survey, overall product scores ranged from 6.77 down to 5.75. This year's scores fell back to earth a bit, but still demonstrate general satisfaction among all of the midrange arrays. EqualLogic's overall score of 6.00 was only .05 better that of Sun/Storage- Tek FlexLine (see "Overall rankings"). EqualLogic led the pack in four out of our five categories.

Sun/StorageTek FlexLine was a surprise winner last year, but its strong second-place showing this year proved that last year's results weren't a fluke. We separated the FlexLine and 6000 series in our survey, and the results were similar to those of last year, with the 6000 series dropping from fifth to sixth largely due to the addition of EqualLogic. The biggest positional changes occurred with Dell's CX Series (rebranded Clariion) and Network Appliance's (NetApp) Inc. FAS series. Dell fell from third place last year to ninth place this year, while NetA...

The largest number of responses was for EMC Corp.'s Clariion, with 118 evaluations; HP EVA was second with 67. The most represented industry was financial services, followed by healthcare and government/nonprofit. The distribution of respondents by company size was weighted slightly toward large organizations. The breakdown here was 28.3% from small organizations (less than $100 million in revenue), 29.4% from midsized organizations ($100 million to $1 billion) and 42.3% from large organizations (more than $1 billion). The majority of respondents are in operational roles, with only 6% from senior management. Storage administrators comprise 24.9% of the respondents, and 16.8% are storage managers.

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