Affinity Index: External Storage Hardware

Sun Leads The Way
Sun Leads The Way
The weighted sum of the 15 factors showed that Sun scored best with solution providers in the Channel Affinity Index, earning 443 points out of a possible 1,000. Sun was closely followed by Seagate Technology and EMC. Western Digital ran a distant fourth with a 295 score.

Note: In the Nov. 24 issue of CRN, the Affinity Index rankings incorrectly listed some External Storage vendors that had incomplete data.

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