You are tasked with solving your company's latest IT challenge; you decide to set up a meeting with your favorite and not-so-favorite technology manufacturers. Oh yeah, you also remind yourself to include a meeting with your local VAR who always comes through in a pinch when you actually have to deploy something. In your meetings you hear about solutions that will move, manipulate, protect, and organize your data while getting 35/mpg, run on alternative fuel and go from 0-60 in five seconds. After many hours of technology overload and resetting your focus on the initial task at hand, you run into your boss in the hallway. Your boss asks how the project is moving along, you reply "Great. We will be able to get the entire IT staff to and from the office for a month while carrying a cord of wood, towing the company bulldozer, all on a single tank of gas. Waite a minute, do we even have a company bulldozer?"
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Quick introduction; I am writing this blog "Storage Navigator" to hopefully distill practical solution architectures from all the technology "BUZZ" so common in this industry. I have been involved in deploying storage solutions and managing infrastructures since the early 1990's, with companies such as Invincible Technology(ITC), Berkshire Computer, Glasshouse Technology and now Daymark Solutions.
Mon, Jul 13, 2009
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