I've worked in the storage arena for close to 20 years now, directly for EMC Corporation for a number of them, and indirectly for them (as a consultant) for the remainder.
Dec 29
I had posted a few nice words about Vista, but I deleted them when I found out that Microsoft has been bribing Bloggers with Brand new $2,300 Acer Ferrari laptops. Where’s mine? The article, on E-Week.com says that at least 7 bloggers have confessed that the nice things they’ve said about vista came after they …
Dec 23
Took the servers down today – on purpose this time. Had to move the rack to put the new floor in my office. ;-) It’s starting to look like a real office now – my little 10′ x 15′ world. Anyway, I apologize for the inconvienence. I have a question for anyone who is VMWare …
Dec 23
Cisco has released version 3.0(2) of their firmware, and with this, comes, finally, an EMAIL-HOME feature for the switch. It’s not perfect (because unlike the dial-home on the Symm, this is dependent on an external server or two, and doesn’t work if the network connection is down. The long and the short of it is …
Dec 09
Ok, there is something I hate about Cisco- and it’s not really about Cisco, it’s about EMC’s complete failure to completely support their MDS series of switches. First – When you buy an MDS 9xxx switch from Cisco, it comes with the ability to dial into Cisco when there is a problem, much like EMC …
Dec 06
The boys over at Symantec (www.symantec.com) just came by last week and gave us an interesting presentation on Enterprise Vault. (Not to be confused with the Vault extension for NetBackup, which is a different beast) The short answer is this. EV is an application that dives into your exchange environment and strips out any email/attachments …
Dec 06
Well, after two days of serious work getting the cabling and power ready, EMC came out and spun up the Symm today. Hot damn! Finally some real storage and I can start planning the migration off the stupid Clariion. 😉 One down-side though, the Multiprotocol cards they shipped were the wrong type, since we have …
Dec 04
Let’s face it, if it’s Oracle, DB2, or anything along those lines, I can snap a copy and back it up with my eyes closed. MSSQL, being a pretend database, has me stumped. I’m so used to archive logs that I’m not even sure how to use TF/Snap to back up the database. This is …
Nov 26
Just figured out that the site was down for about a day or so this weekend. Apparently during a re-model of the office/data center I disconnected the router and never even noticed that the site was down because between putting the dry-wall up and trying to sleep off the injuries to my aching muscles, I …
Oct 25
I had an engineer friend of mine (real engineer, not affiliated with computers) once told me.  “There are three options:     1. You can have it faster.     2. You can have it smaller.     3. You can have it cheaper. ….Now pick any two.” Over and over in my life I’ve put that theory to …
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