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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 [...] 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 [...] In the debut episode of Doctor Who for Matt Smith (“The Eleventh Hour”), the Doctor, having only just regenerated is faced with needing to work out what sort of food suits him. He churns through apples, yoghurt (to great comedic effect), sandwiches, bacon (much to the amusement of a young Scottish girl sourcing each demand) [...] There’s been much speculation as to whether Sun under Oracle would retain the EMC NetWorker OEM arrangement. Finally there’s some details on Sun’s website under the banner “Sun and EMC“. In it, they state: Sun will continue to OEM the EMC NetWorker software for backup and recovery which enables Sun to continue offering the EMC software as [...] 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’m interested in gathering a basic understanding of the NetWorker deployment profiles amongst people who are reading this blog. I’m hoping that the survey is short enough that you won’t mind quickly filling it in. My purpose in collecting this is to get an understanding of the sorts of topics I might cover in future. Note [...] 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 My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that backup and archive are all achieved through the same product interface, then how many companies out there assign the role of archive administrator to the backup administrator? (Or vice versa). I like this question; it’s kind [...] |
 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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