ACE EMC SAN (Score 0)

SAN Solutions via EMC/Dell package http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.a spx/fibre?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz In my opinion is best for the buck ROI CX300, 15 146G drives, with Snapview, Powerpath, Navisphere, with Gold Support on all software and hardware components - $55,000. Extremely scalable. Database cluster performance improvement by far over 50% as compared to NAS or DAS. What ever package on top starting from middleware hardware for embarrassingly parallel cluster farms to MogileFS to MSCS will be pretty happy, assuming your database/app is optimized etc... And than you should run VMware ACE.