I joined Twitter about 6 months ago, having resisted it for some time. My only regret now is that I didn’t join it earlier, but suffice it to say I think it has great potential as a knowledge collective tool, and as a means of people from disparate places over the world staying in touch [...]
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Introduction When I entered the work force, for the first few months I trained as a MIMS consultant, but was then seconded to a system administration team on the other side of the country for 3 months (which became 6 months). Shortly after I returned from that, I joined the BHP IT Unix System Administration team [...] Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a 70 to 80% chance that the answer would be one of the following: Only some very old systems that we decommissioned from production years ago I’d like to suggest that these days, [...] I’m stepping out of my normal NetWorker zone here to briefly discuss what I think is a fundamental flaw with the current state of thin provisioning. The notion of thin provisioning has effectively been around for ages, since it’s effectively from the mainframe age, but we started to see it come back into focus a while [...] I was told yesterday that one of the changes Oracle has wrought at Sun is the killing of all educational discount programmes. Apparently while they’re still listed on the Sun websites, they’re unavailable. Another fascinating change is collapsing support programmes from multiple levels of varying cost to one single level. From a Unix perspective, I grew [...] The always astute Martin Glassborow has an article on his blog titled “This Changes Everything … Honest!” In it, Martin bemoans vendors who push technologies as miraculous solutions – the notion that if you’ve got a problem, all you need to do is buy a widget and bingo! the problem is gone. The meat of [...] The much long-anticipated wait for LTO-5 is now approaching fulfilment, with stories such as “Mass Production of Sony LTO-5 Media Has Started” further reinforcing that this next generation enterprise tape format is about to start rolling into datacentres. One of the biggest advantages of LTO-5 is that while the capacity has effectively doubled from LTO-4, we’ve [...] A recent discussion on Twitter about the high costs of training from NetApp got me thinking more about vendor training. So I’ll lay my cards on the table here: at the company I work for, IDATA, we do sell our own training. We like to differentiate our training from vendor training as being more focused [...] Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the decision to run with “business hours” backup support – 9 to 5, or some variant like that, Monday to Friday. This is seen as a cheaper option, and for some companies, depending on their requirements, it [...] I want to start this article by saying that I’m bound by NDAs all over the place. The company that I work for, being partners with a variety of companies, has NDAs in place for each vendor that results in me being under an NDA as well. Thus, I’m not going to: Break any NDAs |
 And #ff to @PossibilityCity @prestondeguise @simonrob451 @tbecchetti @tompetrocelli @toonzone @VisibleOps @vnagornyi
3 hours ago @iCoolen Seems to be affecting about 8 or 9 people I know at the moment. At least I know it's not just me, thankfully :-)
4 hours ago @prestondeguise OK. Just so you know, I am still online with MSN. So it might be something local to you. Good luck with that.
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