I’m not known for retractions and I’m not posting one. I did however check out the new DD boxes and the really big ones are far more capable than the old ones.
Storage Virtualization – is there a point?
This has been bothering me for a while, and I think I’m not alone.
Hitachi has been making great progress with their virtualization gear, as has IBM, Falconstor before them, etc.
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Ate at Del Frisco’s steakhouse in Orlando
Superb.
Not much fanfare, steaks wet-aged 21 days.
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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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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.