So the first and most important question is, what is your EV storage?
EMC Cellera or Centera? NetApp? NTFS? SAN? etc?
Also what happens if you copy the item instead of opening it, does it still take a long long time?
(i.e is it the file taking a long time to retrieve or is it Excel causing some kind of slow down when opening it?)
Do you have any other files that are 5mb or larger that you can test retrieval times against that aren't excel files?
What kind of Anti Virus are you running?
Does it also take a long time to retrieve from the server?
How long does it take to retrieve if you try and get the item from Archive Explorer or Search.asp etc?
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