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Posted on May 23, 2007November 9, 2017

Ate at Del Frisco’s steakhouse in Orlando

Superb.

Not much fanfare, steaks wet-aged 21 days.

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Posted on May 23, 2007November 9, 2017

Should EMC move to more multi-functional devices?

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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Posted on May 22, 2007November 9, 2017

Netbackup best practices for ridiculously busy environments (but not exclusively).

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.

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Posted on May 21, 2007November 9, 2017

Just ate at Charley’s steakhouse in Orlando

As has been my idiom lately, I will comment on food.

Went to Charley’s steakhouse while attending EMC World.

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Posted on May 8, 2007November 9, 2017

I wonder when dedup will make it to the arrays

Anyone feel that deduplication is not finding its final resting place in backups and WAN accelerators?

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