Sam Aparicio

A common complaint among the collaboration digerati is how useless social networking sites are. But LinkedIn Answers was useful for me in a very practical way.

I’m trying to figure out what SAN is best for us at work and in less than 24 hours I was able to confirm:

• That EMC is probably the best out there but it costs more
• That NetApp has a very competitive product that differentiates itself on ease of management
• That players like Pillar Data and Compellent are the challengers, so they can innovate more

10 answers in one business day… that’s real value for me.

It was interesting to see that a couple of the answers were a bit too slanted towards a vendor with whom the answerer has some kind of relationship, but again, the network allowed me to see these relationships easily.

Thanks LinkedIn!