Superb.
Not much fanfare, steaks wet-aged 21 days.
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Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
Superb.
Not much fanfare, steaks wet-aged 21 days.
Continue reading “Ate at Del Frisco’s steakhouse in Orlando”
Here’s the deal: EMC has a lot of cool stuff. Lots of it came through acquisitions. Lots of it runs on the x86 platform, believe it or not.
At the moment one needs to buy multiple boxes from EMC to do NAS, SAN, archiving, etc.
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While waiting for another EMC World session to start (this one is at “Guru” level, let’s see) I thought I might share some of my experience regarding running Netbackup on very large setups – nothing like learning through pain.
As has been my idiom lately, I will comment on food.
Went to Charley’s steakhouse while attending EMC World.
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Anyone feel that deduplication is not finding its final resting place in backups and WAN accelerators?
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